Family Law

Pro Poker Player jailed for not paying child support

By Robert M. Kisselburgh, Esq.

A professional poker player who makes around $400,000 a year was jailed for failing to pay $160,000 in back child support. According to the article, felony arrest warrants were issued in Wisconsin for the man who lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada. The man previously appealed a trial court's order which increased his monthly child support from $1,500 to $4,000 a month, but the appellate court denied his appeal finding that he made $400,000 a year which justified the increase. It appears he ignored the order, but Wisconsin officials pursued the case. It may be sometime before he is back at the poker table.

Full post as published by Mississippi Family Law Blog on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).