The man in this picture is Frank Hatley. Frank Hatley has no children. Never had kids. Never been married. But he has been in debt, homeless, and eventually jailed. He was also responsible for child support payments for 13 years for a child that wasn't his. And even after a DNA test in 2000 proved the child wasn't his, he was still ordered to pay child support. Why? Because he signed a consent form when the case first started...13 years prior. The amount he was ordered to pay was $16,000!

This case doesn't get any better for Mr. Hatley, until today, when Cook County Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins signed an order stating, "defendant is no longer responsible for paying any amount of child support."

Its hard for me to imagine that anyone in America thinks the family court system is fair or adequate. The personnel are ridiculously overworked, over regulated, and under paid. Mothers are unjustly favored in most cases and Dads are too often denied their rights. Mr. Hatley's case is not alone. There are thousands of American men forced to pay child support to unethical women for children they did not create.

For more on Mr. Hatley's case and the full article in CNN, click here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/11/georgia.child.support/index.html

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