Justice
March 6, 2008 by John in Dating/Relationships, In the News, Leykis
Man to get child support back (via The Tom Leykis Show)
Judge David Roper said he felt badly for Kenneth Samuels when he learned the child he had fathered for 11 years wasn’t his.
Justice was also shortchanged, the judge said, because Mr. Samuels had been paying child support all of those years.
Last month, Judge Roper ruled that Jamie Hope, the child’s mother, and Oba Wallace, the child’s biological father, would have to repay Mr. Samuels $14,460 in child support he had paid since 1997.
Such an order is unusual, but not unique.
I doubt this would’ve been the outcome had this taken place in California or if the Judge was female. All too often the poor schlub who got stuck paying for a kid that wasn’t his, either doesn’t get the money back or, far worse, the man has to keep paying even though the kid isn’t his.
Hopefully Samuels can collect.