Half-sister gets revenge on wealthy half-brother after he becomes deadbeat dad and avoids paying child support, now he has to pay more: ‘Pay for your child!'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Feb 22, 2025 4:00 PM EST

It's not easy being a single parent. Heck, it's not even easy being a parent with a loving and dedicated partner helping you by your side. But doing the whole parenting thing on your own?! Now THAT is doing life on difficult mode. But it happens all the time for many different reasons. Often times it's due to the parents breaking up. Which is totally fine! Everyone deserves to find their happiness. Sometimes co-parenting is possible and even better! However, sometimes it is not because one of the parents is a total deadbeat (hence why they just got dumped). 

 

Cue the stereotypical absent deadbeat dad. This is a father who tries to skip out on all the parenting duties. It's the worst kind of dad. That is why child support went into law. You can run, but you can't run away from the law! This requires parents to always help financially support their child, even if they choose to not be physically (or emotionally) present for them. Many deadbeat dads will still try to even avoid this one duty. When this happens, they get searched out and taken to court. The pay is all according to what they can afford, the kid, the mom, etc. 

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    In this case, a deadbeat dad was making a great amount at his new job, but didn't report it. So he was paying pennies for his child support. His half-sister was watching him being a terrible dad and decided to write up a little message to his baby's mom. Now, he'll be paying way more for his own child. Like he should've been in the first place!

  • "Pay for your child"

    I come from a family with divorced parents; my mother would often take my father or my half-brother's father to court to ensure she got as much money as she could out of them.
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  • My half-brother works in trades and was also doing side jobs for cash (ie. cash, unreported and not paying taxes). While we get along, he had wronged me many ways which I won't bother getting into. But he'd also brag about how much he makes doing side jobs and what he'd buy.
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  • He ended up knocking up a woman he had met on Tinder and then completely tried to ghost her. He deleted his facebook account, etc. She lawyered up and someone tracked him down to serve him papers.
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  • When he was served he was working for one company and making a certain amount so when he was served papers and went through the courts, was ordered to pay a certain amount of child support.
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  • He then switched employer and was making significantly more and should have then been paying more child support. At this point he AND my mother were bragging about him not having to pay as much as he should.
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  • Any extracurricular activities I did were paid for through child support or by my Dad during visitation and my half-brother wasn't doing anything except for watching the child during his now required visitation.
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  • So, I created a fake Facebook account and informed the mother of the child of his new employment/higher pay, so that he'd be paying the requisite amount of child support and hopefully that'd translate to the mother providing additional support/activities for my nephew.
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  • dkelly256 Kind of wild your mom would brag about something like that considering her experiences when you were a child.
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  • zuidenv Back in the day, my parents divorced. My father was ordered to pay $150 a month for 3 kids. He quit his job and worked under the table for years to avoid his child support. We lived our lives. Cut to last year, when my father finally paid his back child support. I am 56 years old. The money didn't matter to my mom but the principle did. I admire her.
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  • Necessary_Baker_7458 They can change employers but they can't run from taxes that's where it will get them. I know a few high school people I went to school with where they divorced. Then the x would start telling lies left and right to the child and the wife/mother was p ed. It comes in the form of back taxes but eventually they'll get it. Took them a while though to collect it.
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  • IndigoRose2022 Good for you, keep doing that (he'll probably try to switch jobs again). My mom actually occasionally does work as a PI finding child- support-dodging losers. She does it for free because she loves it, plus it's usually pretty easy because losers are dumb.
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  • The_Blitz_01 Yeah, I hate guys that are trying to avoid paying child support. I knew a woman whose ex-husband was working under the table to avoid it. The worst part about this was that the ex was working for HER uncle!
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