Father Says He's Being Jailed For Paying Too Much Child Support & Over Visiting His Son [Updated]

[Our readers pointed out there are some inaccuracies in the article coinciding with this video report so I've decided to remove it. You can still read it here. See FOX 26 Houston for a more accurate report. - Chris, InfoLib]

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Reading the article at the link, it looks little differently.

"I discovered for some reason his employer was withholding a large amount some weeks a small amount some weeks a zero amount some weeks," says Hall's attorney Tyesha Elam.

So Hall quickly paid almost 3 grand in back child support.

When Hall and his ex were in Judge Lisa Millard's court last November he owed nothing. "Opposing counsel testified twice that he's all paid up," says Elam.

But the attorney representing the child's mother wanted Hall to pay her three grand in attorney fees and Judge Millard agreed.

Court documents also reveal Hall wasn't following the court's scheduled times to pick his son up for visitation."

No word of overpayment; it looks like Clifford was underpaying for some time (blaming the employer), and that's why the mother sued. When Clifford learned about lawsuit, he quickly paid up, but the mother wanted attorney fees, which is reasonable. So the prison term seems to be for _under_payment before the lawsuit plus for visiting not on schedule.

@75145,
That sounds more logical , if reports on the site are not verified the credibility of the site comes in to question . There are enough "real" stories out there without having to mis-represent or distort the truth , after all thats what we come here to read . I agree, I've been coming to this site for years now and have to say I'm very disappointed at the mis-representation. 75145 is right.

I know for certain that there are thousands of people who traffic this site regularly and i'm sure many of them are loyal readers so there is no need to exaggerate, distort or mis-represent the titles to attract readership or keep readers interested.

Yes, I agree there are some inaccuracies in the report. I didn't check it enough before posting it, my apologies. The over paid claim came from his lawyer who said he "over paid" and "over visited."

"I'm like he couldn't have gotten a worse result," Elam says. "He could have gone in there with a monkey and gotten a better result. What did I do that my client has over paid over visited and is now paying 3 thousand dollars in attorney fees and is going to jail for 6 months."

This show how screwed up this legal system is. If he didn't pay his child support, he would be just like a lot of these dead beat men out here that is not providing for their children. They would be out here walking around free. This is why some of these judges out here need to retire, because they have gotten so comfortable and power hungry with their positions. 190197, the link to the judge's website pops up a 404 error... site taken down, or is the link wrong? 2423, looks like they hid all the content from her website probably due to the backlash of the story breaking out. What a disgrace to & misuse of the judicial system!

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Implosion of The Houla Massacre Story -- Is Anyone Paying Attention?

by Daniel McAdams

A respected mainstream publication, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), has reported that the infamous Houla massacre in Syria, which the US and NATO hoped would be the casus belli for their planned invasion, was in fact carried out by rebel forces.

Highlighted in the National Review, of all places, the FAZ investigation was exhaustive and convincing.

NRO reports on the original FAZ story:

According to the article's sources, the massacre occurred after rebel forces attacked three army-controlled roadblocks outside of Houla. The roadblocks had been set up to protect nearby Alawi majority villages from attacks by Sunni militias. The rebel attacks provoked a call for reinforcements by the besieged army units. Syrian army and rebel forces are reported to have engaged in battle for some 90 minutes, during which time "dozens of soldiers and rebels" were killed.

"According to eyewitness accounts," the FAZ report continues,

"the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla's Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla's population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.

For weeks, alternative media analysts and even eyewitnesses had been poking enormous holes in the suspiciously convenient Western narrative that Assad's forces slaughtered the villagers, cutting and killing at close range. No one paid attention, as usual.

The NRO piece continues with a fascinating story from a Christian monastery in the vicinity:

"Already at the beginning of April, Mother Agn?s-Mariam de la Croix of the St. James Monastery warned of rebel atrocities' being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as regime atrocities. She cited the case of a massacre in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs. According to an account published in French on the monastery's website, rebels gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya and blew up the building with dynamite. They then attributed the crime to the regular Syrian army. 'Even though this act has been attributed to regular army forces . . . the evidence and testimony are irrefutable: It was an operation undertaken by armed groups affiliated with the opposition,' Mother Agn?s-Mariam wrote."

Either Mother Agn?s-Mariam is a liar or Hillary Clinton is a liar. You decide.

A few things to consider in light of these dramatic developments:

1) Western governments and media blamed the Assad government immediately and without evidence, pushing condemnation through the UN Security Council without delay to take advantage of the horror and outrage.

As astute observer James Jatras predicted a month before the Houla deception:

Watch for staged "atrocity" to trigger ?#NATO? action in ?#Syria?: "From ?#Srebrenica? and ?#Racak? to ?#Benghazi? and ?#Homs?" http://t.co/JfyUvKMq

2) The Assad government was telling the truth when it said that Syrian forces did not commit the massacre. According to the "regime change" narrative, the regime to be changed must be immediately and totally discredited so that nothing it claims is to be believed. Even some alternative and antiwar sites painstakingly repeated regime change propaganda about the horrors of the Assad regime -- repeated with particular venom by those who six months earlier could scarcely find Syria on the map. The question is now, if they were telling the truth about Houla, what else have they been telling the truth about all along?

Could it be that the "democratic" Gulf States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are indeed playing a dirty and destabilizing game? How about Israel, which stands to benefit enormously from the downfall of Iran's closest ally in the region? Today a senior Israeli minister accused the Assad government of genocide and urged international intervention to overthrow the regime. Not to be outdone, Netanyahu added that it is not only the Syrian regime undertaking genocide: also Iran through its proxy Hezbollah is guilty. Some might mention a slow-motion genocide resulting from Israel's policies in the occupied territories, but that would not be polite.

3) UN Secretary General is, as was his predecessor, a mere tool of the US and Western governments who pay his salary. Though he is supposed to be a neutral party he is clearly and unreservedly repeating Western regime-change propaganda.

4) U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, is a psychotic, bloodthirsty monster who deserves to be jailed as a war criminal. When the Syrian government denied responsibility for the Houla massacre, Rice with no evidence immediately dismissed the denial as a "blatant lie." Rice and her evil partners Samantha Power and Hillary Clinton are hell-bent on ensuring that left-wing interventionism is as bloody and destructive as its right-wing counterpart, even if they call it "humanitarian." Alawi and Shia minorities do not count as human to the likes of Rice, Hillary, and Power, so they are not entitled to the same human rights protections. They are standing in the way of progress by continuing to live, so their destruction is all for the greater good.

Syrian government responsibility for Houla was a lie; it was in fact a provocation by the rebels to get the Libya-style foreign intervention they need to overthrow the government. Will anyone listen now that a major mainstream outlet has reported it?

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'Susan Rice, is a psychotic, bloodthirsty monster' - I was listening up until this line. Your court-room-level proof, please?

Regardless of your point-of-view or motives, this is character assassination. It blows your argument to pieces by destroying this article's claim to being impartial. It is clearly biased. It cannot, therefore, be trusted.

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Paying Off One Handout With Another

By Douglas French

A year ago the Treasury Department bragged about an analysis that claimed the government's massive bank bailout in response to the 2008 financial crisis (TARP) would actually end up turning a $24 million profit.

At the time, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that while the government's overriding objective was to "break the back of the financial crisis and save American jobs," it didn't hurt that the TARP investments in U.S. banks "delivered a significant profit for taxpayers."

But TARP watchdogs disagree. ??A report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) estimates TARP's losses at $60 billion. ?"Taxpayers are still owed $118.5 billion (including $14 billion written off or otherwise lost)," and the SIG makes the point that nothing has really changed, no lessons have been learned, and this poses the possibility "of rushing out another massive bailout of the financial industry, i.e., TARP 2.0."

The focus of the Wall Street Journal's story on the TARP report is that 351 small banks still owe a total of $15 billion in TARP funds and these banks' prospects for raising the money to payoff the government is dim. ??This is significant because the cost of TARP money increases from 5% to 9% after five years.

However, many of the small banks that did manage to pay back the TARP capital, did so with funds from the Small Business Lending Fund, a pool of $4 billion made available by the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. ?Of course this Department of Treasury program was created to stimulate small business lending. ?But the pricing of funds, looks like just an opportunity for the banks to buy time with the hopes that the capital markets will eventually be friendlier. ?In other words another bail out. ?According to the Treasury website,

The initial rate payable on SBLF capital is, at most, five percent, and the rate falls to one percent if a bank's small business lending increases by ten percent or more. Banks that increase their lending by less than ten percent pay rates between two percent and four percent. If a bank's lending does not increase in the first two years, however, the rate increases to seven percent, and after 4.5 years total, the rate for all banks increases to nine percent (if the bank has not already repaid the SBLF funding).

Treasury received 935 applications for SBLF money and funded 332 institutions. ?Of those 332 institutions, 137 banks used the SBLF funds to pay back the TARP money they owed. ?There were a few relatively large institutions that used the SBLF exit strategy. ?For instance, Western Alliance Bancorporation, a nearly $7 billion bank holding company traded on the NYSE, paid off $140 million in TARP plus a little more for warrants with complete funding from SBLF.

The SBLF program was closed on September 27 of last year and at that time 390 banks still owed TARP. ?Of those 390, 178 had applied for SBLF but were turned down. ?Many of these banks were turned down because they were delinquent on their TARP payments.

The report concluded that SBLF "culled a large number of the healthier community banks from TARP, leaving less-healthy banks in TARP that had less capital, had missed dividends, or, in many cases, were subject to enforcement actions by their regulators."

Of the remaining 351 banks in TARP, a full 46% or 163 of them were delinquent on their payments to the Treasury. ?Of the 163, the vast majority, 116, had missed five or more payments.

So the "healthy" banks were able to secure a new bail out from Uncle Sam, to pay off the old bail out money, while the unhealthy banks, many that can't pay the 5% coupons, will be expected to pay 9%.

SIGTARP knows these banks can't make it without more government help and has recommended that possibly Treasury should renegotiate the TARP terms or that a clear TARP exit path be developed (presumably like SBLF).

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