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The National Child Support Network's
EX Files
The following Ex-Files are the property and responsibility of the submitters and are not in any way
verified by the National Child Support Network as accurate. They do, however, reflect the condition of our society.
Until our Judicial System fulfills its responsibility to enforce its judgments of support, individuals must do all
they can to protect themselves. This includes enlisting the services of a private collection agency (such as ours)
to insure that they and their children do not fall through the cracks of Bureaucracy. We wish you and everyone else
in this situation the courage to stand up for your rights, and the determination to take back control.
Leah MacGregor
I am the stepmother, helping to raise my 3 stepchildren, along with my own 2 children. My ex-husband
pays child support regularly and is a wonderful father. The problem is with my husband's ex. Leah continues to
evade child support payments, she does not emotionally or financially help to raise her children. I have been
raising her 3 children for 7 years, she has been ordered to pay, and is sometimes garnished when the state can find her.
The amount is minimal, yet she continues to evade payments. Also, she makes no attempt to help with the children
in any other way, she won't even call them. Currently, she is taking us to court to ask the judge to modify support
because she claims to be going to college and will not be working. While trying to further your education is
admirable, doing it at the expense of your children isn't. I am a teacher, and over the past 7 years I would have
loved to have been able to get my masters, however there is never enough money to pay for that. My primary
responsibility is helping to care for our family-it should be hers also. I am hoping the judge is understanding
of the fact that mothers should be just as responsible to financially raising the children as fathers.
Willie Jester Goodson a.k.a. Willie Elliott or Willie Ellis
I have been divorced with a child support order in effect for almost 6 years. My ex has paid less than
$200.00 for our now 15 year old daughter. When served with a Notice of Arrears, he left town and we have not
heard from him since; this was three years ago. We suspect him to be living in Sacramento.
Willie Jester Goodson a.k.a. Willie Elliott or Willie Ellis. Please find this dead beat dad. P.S.
It shouldn't make a difference but he's a minister!
Devon Jay Roberts
My wife's Ex husband, Devon Jay Roberts lives in Eureka, CA and is currently $33,000 in debt to her.
He has only paid 6 months of child support in the last five years. He is currently living with his girlfriend and
has a child with her but they claim to not know who the father is. Therefore they are able to live on welfare.
Devon and my wife lived in Porterville when they got divorced. Devon worked at Wal-Mart and got fired for using drugs. He later moved to Woodland (5hours north) where he got a job with Lampson Session. After working there for awhile his wages were garnished. Soon after that my wife decided to move to Springville (15 miles from Porterville). Since she had the money from the child support she was able to afford a bigger apartment to provide for the children.
Devon took her to court because he said she had moved the kids too much. Which she had moved a few times due to the fact that she had married a guy who ended up being a jerk. (She miscarried a baby and the new husband said that she was not worthy of his kid. So she divorced him and had to move the kids a few times to get settled in a place she could afford.) He didn't show up for the court date and my wife was awarded to be able to move. 6-8 months after, his wages were garnished he was fired from Lampson Session for missing work. He was warned many times but continued to do so.
Meanwhile my wife and I had met and decided to get married. Therefore we decided it would be a good idea to move the family to the Irvine area (3 hours south of Porterville) since that is where I worked. Devon didn't like that so he took my wife to court again to try to keep her from moving saying that it would be too hard on the kids. Which he is right the drive would be long on the kids but he is the one that moved 5 hours north in the first place. Soon after we were awarded the move Devon decided to move an additional 5 hours north to Eureka, which is where he resides now. To me it doesn't make sense for him to take us to court about moving 3.5 hours and then him go ahead and move an additional 5. Now the kids have a 13 hour drive to go see him which is unfair so we are taking him to court so he can pay for plane tickets.
We are also taking him to court to see if we would be able to move the kids out of state. I don't think it will be a problem since I am the sole provider for the kids. He doesn't provide child support or medical insurance for his kids...I do. We are wanting to move back to NE because I have a job offer there and I also have family there. I am hoping that everything works out. Devon has dug himself a big grave and I kind of feel sorry for him because I had a dead beat dad and now I don't have the respect that I should for him. It will all come back to Devon in the end because he is already so far in debt that he won't be able to own anything. The biggest thing is that I believe that the kids will respect me more as a father than they will their own. That is the biggest reward I could have.
Devon and my wife lived in Porterville when they got divorced. Devon worked at Wal-Mart and got fired for using drugs. He later moved to Woodland (5hours north) where he got a job with Lampson Session. After working there for awhile his wages were garnished. Soon after that my wife decided to move to Springville (15 miles from Porterville). Since she had the money from the child support she was able to afford a bigger apartment to provide for the children.
Devon took her to court because he said she had moved the kids too much. Which she had moved a few times due to the fact that she had married a guy who ended up being a jerk. (She miscarried a baby and the new husband said that she was not worthy of his kid. So she divorced him and had to move the kids a few times to get settled in a place she could afford.) He didn't show up for the court date and my wife was awarded to be able to move. 6-8 months after, his wages were garnished he was fired from Lampson Session for missing work. He was warned many times but continued to do so.
Meanwhile my wife and I had met and decided to get married. Therefore we decided it would be a good idea to move the family to the Irvine area (3 hours south of Porterville) since that is where I worked. Devon didn't like that so he took my wife to court again to try to keep her from moving saying that it would be too hard on the kids. Which he is right the drive would be long on the kids but he is the one that moved 5 hours north in the first place. Soon after we were awarded the move Devon decided to move an additional 5 hours north to Eureka, which is where he resides now. To me it doesn't make sense for him to take us to court about moving 3.5 hours and then him go ahead and move an additional 5. Now the kids have a 13 hour drive to go see him which is unfair so we are taking him to court so he can pay for plane tickets.
We are also taking him to court to see if we would be able to move the kids out of state. I don't think it will be a problem since I am the sole provider for the kids. He doesn't provide child support or medical insurance for his kids...I do. We are wanting to move back to NE because I have a job offer there and I also have family there. I am hoping that everything works out. Devon has dug himself a big grave and I kind of feel sorry for him because I had a dead beat dad and now I don't have the respect that I should for him. It will all come back to Devon in the end because he is already so far in debt that he won't be able to own anything. The biggest thing is that I believe that the kids will respect me more as a father than they will their own. That is the biggest reward I could have.
Anonymous
My ex-husband left shortly before my daughter was two years old. She is now seven and a half. In that amount of time
he has spent maybe a total of two months with her. She doesn't understand and I can't explain it to her. I have tried to
maintain a male presence in her life by spending a lot of time with my mother and father who dote on her. My daughter has
become her grandpa's little shadow. But it will never replace the father she has but doesn't really see.
He and I hadn't finalized our divorce agreement as of last December but it wasn't a big deal to either of us since we got along fairly well in recent years and we each had our own lives and we had agreed that we would finalize it whenever the other asked. It wasn't an issue. We were divorced in our minds and the legal part was just that: a legal piece of paper. It really didn't make a difference to me because I had cut him out of my life like a surgeon with a tumor. But recently he began dating this woman and apparently he lied about our divorce being final. I told him to tell her the truth but he didn't listen and she later found out. I had liked her at first because she made him stop drinking and pay a little more attention to his daughter but suddenly she became Attila The Hun and was calling me every name in the book and telling him to divorce me. Well that was fine! I contacted my attorney who in turn tried to contact his attorney. Well his attorney never returned any of the calls and the next thing I know the girlfriend is leaving final FILED divorce papers at my mothers.
He divorced me by default. Which the divorce in itself was fine, but the manner in which it was handled was so adolescent and unnecessary that I got angry. I had tried to be nice and I have tried to be calm but suddenly she decided that he wasn't going to continue to pay his half of the tuition to my daughters school even though it was his initial choice of schools. And the Child Support was becoming an issue even though he earns $70k a year and his Child Support is less than $450.00.
This guy was becoming the Deadbeat Dad I had always feared. Not only is he not supporting his daughter emotionally, his is not supporting her financially either. I have tried everything and I am now trying to have his paychecks attached but I have ambivalent feelings. I can't afford to do without the support but maybe he will just go away and leave us alone if I don't do anything about it. But I am tired of being a doormat as well and I'd like to see this no-balls bastard suffer!
He and I hadn't finalized our divorce agreement as of last December but it wasn't a big deal to either of us since we got along fairly well in recent years and we each had our own lives and we had agreed that we would finalize it whenever the other asked. It wasn't an issue. We were divorced in our minds and the legal part was just that: a legal piece of paper. It really didn't make a difference to me because I had cut him out of my life like a surgeon with a tumor. But recently he began dating this woman and apparently he lied about our divorce being final. I told him to tell her the truth but he didn't listen and she later found out. I had liked her at first because she made him stop drinking and pay a little more attention to his daughter but suddenly she became Attila The Hun and was calling me every name in the book and telling him to divorce me. Well that was fine! I contacted my attorney who in turn tried to contact his attorney. Well his attorney never returned any of the calls and the next thing I know the girlfriend is leaving final FILED divorce papers at my mothers.
He divorced me by default. Which the divorce in itself was fine, but the manner in which it was handled was so adolescent and unnecessary that I got angry. I had tried to be nice and I have tried to be calm but suddenly she decided that he wasn't going to continue to pay his half of the tuition to my daughters school even though it was his initial choice of schools. And the Child Support was becoming an issue even though he earns $70k a year and his Child Support is less than $450.00.
This guy was becoming the Deadbeat Dad I had always feared. Not only is he not supporting his daughter emotionally, his is not supporting her financially either. I have tried everything and I am now trying to have his paychecks attached but I have ambivalent feelings. I can't afford to do without the support but maybe he will just go away and leave us alone if I don't do anything about it. But I am tired of being a doormat as well and I'd like to see this no-balls bastard suffer!
Michael W. McQuerry
Michael W. McQuerry who resides in Chicago Illinois, continues to evade the system by moving within a 5 mile radius
and continues to jump-hop to avoid Child Support payment.
He mostly moves in with other women and then leaves no forwarding address: by the time the Child Support workers catch up with him he moves again. This is not his first time doing this. He has another child that he never paid child support for and his parents encourage his behavior.
I have tried the court systems, hired private attorneys and continue to telephone the Child Support workers on a regular basis. I have written to the President, and to the Governors of Ohio and Illinois, and to anyone else that would listen. However, little has been done to collect the money that has been court ordered. I think it's time he spent some time in the COOK COUNTY JAIL.
He mostly moves in with other women and then leaves no forwarding address: by the time the Child Support workers catch up with him he moves again. This is not his first time doing this. He has another child that he never paid child support for and his parents encourage his behavior.
I have tried the court systems, hired private attorneys and continue to telephone the Child Support workers on a regular basis. I have written to the President, and to the Governors of Ohio and Illinois, and to anyone else that would listen. However, little has been done to collect the money that has been court ordered. I think it's time he spent some time in the COOK COUNTY JAIL.
Patrick William Jensen
My Ex's name is Patrick William Jensen: we had five children together in a fourteen-year marriage. One child is no
longer on child support, but four of them are. He has been court ordered to pay a lousy $390.00 a month in support.
He was receiving unemployment payments for most of the fall and winter and I have gotten that only after a big fight
with Child Support Enforcement in which the state was taking all but $8.00 a month. I finally received that money owed to
me after a five-month fight. Now the Ex is working again for his Uncle at McBreen Construction here in NE. The company
is based in Gretna, which is just west of Omaha.
I spoke to child support enforcement this year to inform them that he is working again at his Uncle's business. They sent out Income Withholding papers in March. It is now May and they tell me today that he no longer works there. His home phone has been disconnected. My attorney said that for $175, I can file a contempt which will take two weeks. (Child Support Enforcement can do it also, but that will take a month.)
Also, January of every year my Ex gets a lawyer to file a restraining order on US which keeps us from filing our taxes so he can go ask the judge if he can use the children on his taxes as deductions! This also costs us, as we have to pay more attorney-fees in order to keep the deductions. The court has ordered him to pay our attorney fees but as we all know, a court order means NOTHING. Mr. Patrick William Jensen is already behind $807 THIS YEAR. Where will this end? My children deserve better!
I spoke to child support enforcement this year to inform them that he is working again at his Uncle's business. They sent out Income Withholding papers in March. It is now May and they tell me today that he no longer works there. His home phone has been disconnected. My attorney said that for $175, I can file a contempt which will take two weeks. (Child Support Enforcement can do it also, but that will take a month.)
Also, January of every year my Ex gets a lawyer to file a restraining order on US which keeps us from filing our taxes so he can go ask the judge if he can use the children on his taxes as deductions! This also costs us, as we have to pay more attorney-fees in order to keep the deductions. The court has ordered him to pay our attorney fees but as we all know, a court order means NOTHING. Mr. Patrick William Jensen is already behind $807 THIS YEAR. Where will this end? My children deserve better!