The child support laws are serious.
I don’t like deadbeat dads and if there is a court order they should pay, but if you owe Rent-A-Center some money they don’t put you in jail or suspend your driver license.
Plus it is hard to pay the child support if you aren’t working and it is hard to work if you are in prison with the real criminals, so I think they should revise the laws a bit.
Ralph Sampson is the latest person to get caught up. Here are the details.
College basketball great and four-time NBA All-Star Ralph Sampson is free after being jailed for several hours in Gwinnett County for numerous traffic violations.
“My license was not suspended for failure to meet child support obligations of any kind,” he said in an email sent Wednesday afternoon to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The former Houston Rockets center, who lives in Duluth, was arrested Tuesday night for having, among other things, a suspended license that was the result of failure to meet child support obligations, according to police reports.
No matter what was the reasoning being child support or failing to pay tickets. Sampson was riding dirty and that is what got him in trouble.
SMARTEN UP NAS