Divorced-Moms 1, Dead-Beat-Dads 0

So, I have been asked to blog some very delightful news. I told Nich, I don't know if Karma was smiling on me today or just frowning more on Curtis! I had a teletrial at work today with a Louisiana Judge, the DA's office, and an officer with the LA child support enforcment office. The topic...should Curtis be allowed to have his child support reduced? Well, after much interrogation as to his many places of residence, employment, and shady marital status it became evident that maybe the lady with the DA didn't like Curtis much. In fact, I think she was actually trying to insinuate that Curtis might have been trying to dodge having to pay his child support. Can you believe that? Can you say "duh?" At one point the DA asked Curtis how he could afford to buy a house. He said his fiance bought it because his credit is bad. So she asked, "and she wants to marry you?" I almost fell out of my chair! Apparently since Curtis has not worked off shore since 2001, they allowed him to have his reduction from $580.00 per month to $315.00 per month. Of course, this doesn't bother me because I figure I will never see a penny of that either, so no biggie right? But here's where it gets better...

Apparently, the DA had a little surprise for Curtis, because at this point she says, "Your honor, the state would now like to bring charges against Curtis for contempt of court." I don't think Curtis knew this was going to happen because he made a bit of an ass of himself...imagine that! Well, they swear in an officer of the CSE office and he tells them that he has made no voluntary payments since september of 2005, owes an arrears of $28, 000.00 (yes, that is the right amount of zeros), and has made no attempt to try to make current or past due payments. This is the point where the judge decided to put the proverbial "smack down". He found him guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 90 days in jail. The officer recommended a suspended sentence on the conditions that 1)Curtis pay $2000.00 toward his arrears by 7/13/07 and 2)that he makes current payments for an entire year...if not, he is on his way to the communal showers...I doubt I will ever see a penny, but the thought of pretty little Curtis having too reach for soap next to Guido and Bubba, makes me giggle. I was thinking of sending Curtis astroglide as a gift, but then I thought...you know what, he doesn't even deserve that much.