jail time

[rtwins]

Three months ago my husband went to court regarding support payments and a modification. He also was being charged with contempt for non payment. The agreement was that if he kept up his payments for the next three months, there would be no jail time. He made his payments weekly and on time.

He gets into court this week and judge says that last time he agreed to make a lump sum payment and since CS had not received it, he was going to jail for 30 days.

We have no idea what kind of lump sum they are referring to. The IRS is forwarding our tax return but that is the only amount we know of. He never agreed to anything like that but the judge says the people from CS claim he did.

If we find out the amount and can come up with the money, can his jail time be suspended?

He was appointed a pblic defender, who has not returned any of our calls. Jail time is in less than 2 weeks,

Can we call the court house?

Appreciate any help

[joni]

do you have a copy of the court order from 3 months ago.  what does the court order say about the payment arrangement?

do you have copy of the weekly cancelled checks?  can you provide those to the judge's office as proof of payment....along with the court order that says you didn't have to pay a lump sum?

where is your husband making these payments?  through the court or directly to the Ex?  why wouldn't the judge have known that you've been making these payments?

what was the reason your husband had to go back to cour this week?

[rtwins]

court hearing was to decide if he would be in contempt for non payment, but the agreement was that he make payments on time for the past three months and jail time would be suspended.

He has copies of all his payments and there is no paper work that describes any kind of agreement for a lump sum.

We thought the public defender would have argued a little.

payments are made to the CS agency

[rini]

AS Soon as possible

you will probably have to pay a fee to have it transcribed this will show the judge his error.

rini