I just got off the phone with the Dept. of Revenue. (They keep track of child support owed) My ex owes me $80K!!! Do you know what I could do with that? I haven’t been paid in years!
What would you do with $80K?
I’d give it to my fiance…
Oh wait a tick…
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That’s nothing, my ex owes me the last 7 years of my life back!
Anyway, are you going to be able to collect? If you do, COLLEGE FUND!
Nah I doubt I will EVER see that money. My ex is 50 years old and lives in his dead mothers house until the siblings can agree to sell it. (The house is only worth $15K) His brother is paying the utilities. He collects food stamps. He refuses to work. A few years ago the judge threw him in jail for not paying but let him out on $1K bail with the promise he would get a job. (Yeah right)
The State of Florida suspended his license for being a “dead beat dad” so I guess he still doesn’t have one. He doesn’t own anything. Doesn’t have a phone.
My ex sister in law told me yesterday that he got a job working for Auto Zone in May but got fired for taking days off (he lasted 2 days on the job)
He is an alcoholic and a drug user and no one knows where he gets his money for his habit.
It’s a pipe dream that I will one day start to collect child support.
It’s tough raising 5 kids on my own.
That’s sad that your children have had to go without the benefit of that money. I sure wish there was some way of them ever seeing it. Maybe he’ll win the lottery…
By Isabelle: “What would you do with $80K?”
First, I’d try to get my hands on it. Since that doesn’t seem possible under the situation you described above, I’d forget about it. 
That’s not really a possibility now, is it?
My ex is only up to about $20k…but I, too am certain I will never see that money, or even a portion of it. However, it’s hard to forget when your kids need new shoes and Mommy can’t buy them.
I think the solution is forcing dads to pay up, not the Mommys “forgetting” about it. :mad:
~J
Looking at what you say his life is you are so much richer to be out of it. The real hard part is the kids. He owes them so much more than money. How do you keep them from being ashamed of part of themselves while still teaching them that being a lazy drug using louse is not a good choice.
It is also very heroic. I know you and the kids could use the support. I would be crazy if I had that responsibility.
Dear Isabelle,
First off, please let me say how unhappy I am with the prospect of you having to raise five kids on your own.
Second, if you ever get the $80K, please go and buy yourself some $10K solid gold “brass” knuckles and beat this worthless sh!t to death. Use the other $70K to get yourself off the aggravated murder charges. Please let me know if you need help.
Yours Sincerely,
Guido