Bio Father Refuses To Pay Child Support, Gets Sued For $350K, And Loses The Case

Before we start pointing fingers, let's remember that life is unpredictable and that there is a myriad of reasons why parents anywhere may be unable to meet their legal duties to pay alimony.

It still doesn't change the reality that child maintenance has been a contentious issue for what seems like a very long time. To put it plainly, it stinks to be denied the resources for a child that both parties consented to have, and a lot of the time, the reasoning behind it is absurd. As a result, "wanting justice" occasionally isn't such a horrible strategy.

An indie author, Helen Edwards, once said: “Child support is both a money angel and a demon who taunts the soul unto destruction”

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“AITA for suing my biological father for unpaid child support?” - This internet user asked the members of one of Reddit's most critical forums if they were really being jerks for suing their divorced father for unpaid child support. Nearly 30K people liked the post, and there were 1.7K comments about the issue.

A Redditor wonders if suing their absent father for unpaid child support was a jerk move.

The internet user stated at the outset of their narrative that they had never been close to their biological father. When the author's mother became pregnant, the man supposedly disappeared and never even acknowledged having a child.

The father had a very well-paying profession at the time, as well as various rental properties, so the wife was able to establish paternity in court and obtain an order for child support. As a result, the ordered sum was rather substantial. He obviously didn't want to pay and even managed to get away with it.

The author of the article never had a relationship with their biological father, who also avoided paying child support.

Unfortunately, the writer of the message had already lost their mother, and, to be quite honest, all they wanted was some justice.

The author of the post understood that while they were unable to pursue the unpaid child support on their own, they may file a lawsuit on behalf of their deceased mother's estate. After winning the case, the father who was not present owes the family over $350,000 plus legal costs. The judgment was almost immediately paid despite the man "crying poor," so either he was lying or his parents had bailed him out.

The author of the post sought "justice" for their late mother by suing their estranged father and ultimately winning a $350,000 case.

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Now, if there hadn't been any trash-talking, the plot wouldn't have worked as a family drama. It turns out that the Redditor had access to the social media accounts of their biological father's wife, who had implicitly referred to them as a bastard looking for a payoff. She gets a boohoo.

What do you think? Some of the author's family members feel that they shouldn't have utilized the judicial system to obtain the money that wasn't legally theirs.

Members of the internet community discussed this complex tale and offered their comments.