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Man must support another man's child

By Glen Ashman

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Philadelphia man was forced to pay more than $12,000 in child support for another man's daughter and spent two years in jail for falling behind on payments... Walter Andre Sharpe Jr... has been unable to recover the money even after establishing that he isn't the girl's father....Sharpe's troubles began in 2001, when he signed for a certified letter addressed to Andre Sharpe, the girl's father... Walter Sharpe, who was already supporting four children from a previous marriage, ignored the letter, and a judge ruled he was the father after neither man showed up. The county family welfare agency then began garnishing Walter Sharpe's wages from his job at a trash-hauling company. He served four six-month jail terms for not keeping up with support payments between 2001 and 2005, then lost his job. Petitions he filed for DNA testing were opposed by the court's domestic relations officials and denied by the judge...

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on December 06, 2008 (boomark / email).