I love how he keeps stressing that the kid is adopted, as if that makes him less his kid (which it obviously does to him). All he would have had to do was file that he was unemployed and lacking income, unless he WAS getting unemployment, which then begs the question, especially since he obviously had the lump sum just on hand, why he wasn't paying it to begin with. If he'd paid it off, or thought he had, he would have gotten some kind of documentation to that effect. You can not be sentenced for a crime (in this case contempt) without a hearing, and any lawyer would have had this thrown out (if it were valid) due to the circumstances. This whole story sounds fishy as hell.
Also, thats bull about not being able to overthrow contempt in wisconsin.
https://wisconsinfamilylaw.info/tag/what-if-someone-is-in-contempt-of-a-court-order-in-wisconsin/
Ugh, yeah I don't know what the details were in this guy's case, but I really have no love for our "criminal justice" system. I've been fighting with the courthouse because they keep wanting more money and issuing warrants and I keep reminding them they owe ME money, and then they back off. And they don't issue me payment, of course. Jerks.
@celticrose, thanks! I went in Tuesday and presented them with a letter explaining everything and gave them 120 days to refund my money before I would take action. They seemed to be paying attention. If they are still messing with me in four months, I will definitely contact the state attorney general's office first. That's a great idea.
When I was a young kid I got a ticket for an exhaust leak on my car. I couldn’t pay. It snowballed and finally I had to come up with $300~ (an insane amount to me at the time,) to not go to jail. Fast forward 10 years. I get a ticket for speeding (I wasn’t... when the cop saw me...) and go to court. Judge heard me out, waives the ticket, $50 admin fee. Ok. Then he says I have an outstanding ticket for exhaust leak. I don’t have the proof of payment after 6 years because I was a dumb kid. $800 they charged me- or go to jail. So I paid the same ticket 2 times to the time of over $1100 for being a kid who couldn’t afford to fix his car. My point?
Family court IS biased against men and needs to change. Our concepts of divorce and custody and alimony or support, abuse and more. But.... this guy didn’t get jerked by the system for being a man. He got jerked by the system because that’s the system. Red tape and hoops and secret rules that no one person knows and no two agree on, and the right hand and left don’t know what the other is doing. My point is that it is a shame and the system needs improved- but claiming that the failings of bureaucracy justify male persecution complex is... a stretch. That MGTOW has nothing to do with the fact you got screwed by a system- a system which I might remind the gender obsessed is still male dominated and was built by men with its roots in a time where men were the only or dominant voice. So you don’t get to blame women for this one.
Also, thats bull about not being able to overthrow contempt in wisconsin.
https://wisconsinfamilylaw.info/tag/what-if-someone-is-in-contempt-of-a-court-order-in-wisconsin/