Yet another reason to stay away from Detroit

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A Detroit man on Tuesday lost what might have been his last chance to avoid paying $30,000 in back child support for a child that isn’t his. WXYZ reports Third Judicial Circuit Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy told Carnell Alexander he should have taken care of the problem years ago and was therefore responsible for paying the support. But Alexander says he never knew that an ex-girlfriend declared him the father of a child he never met. He didn’t learn that until the mid 1990s when he got pulled over for a traffic violation and the officer told him he was under arrest for failure to pay child support. Alexander discovered that a good deal of the problem was because a process server said that in the late 1980s he was served a summons to appear in court for a paternity suit. The server signed a document saying that Alexander had been served the papers at his father’s home in Highland Park but he refused to sign the summons. “I wasn’t there. I couldn’t refuse to sign,” Alexander told WXYZ in October. And he wasn’t. Department of Corrections documents prove that he was in prison at the time for a crime he committed when he was a young man.

Then again, staying away from Detroit and Michigan may not work if any woman can name any random man as the father and then get him arrested as a result of him not knowing of the allegation of paternity.



For those who would say "should have kept his nose clean" ... in this case, getting his nose dirty and being in prison back then may be the one thing that saves his ass. That prison term is iron-clad evidence against any claim that he was there when the papers were served. Fortunately he has a pro bono lawyer so the legal fees won't bankrupt him (for now).

Yet another reason to stay away from Detroit