NBA Veteran Imprisoned for Falling Behind on CS

January 6, 2005

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I was quoted in a recent article about the nightmarish Lohstroh case--see Advocates say father's death a case of alienation syndrome (Houston Chronicle,12/29/04, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1/2/04). In October we devoted a show to this case, wherein a 10 year-old boy caught in his mother's alienation campaign shot his father in the back after his father came to pick him up as part of his post-divorce shared custody arrangement.  The most chilling part of the show was when we played recordings of Lohstroh's ex-wife threatening to bring false changes of child abuse against him. To listen, go to The Lohstroh Case: Alienating Mother Pushes 10 Year-Old Boy to Kill Father (10/31/04).

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Doug Darnall, who recently appeared on His Side (see Spontaneous Reunification, 12/19/04), was also quoted in the article. 

The Associated Press has an interesting article about the problem of divorce among families separated due to one spouse's military service--U.S. Army tries to save war-torn marriages.  One thing the article ignores is the role of anti-father family court bias in these divorces. Most divorces involving children are initiated by women, and the expectation of obtaining custody is one of the major factors which facilitates the divorce (see my co-authored column Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce?, New York Sun, 10/2/02). I can guarantee that if these women weren't sure they would get custody of their children and all its attendant power and privileges they'd be more willing to be patient with their marriages to deployed servicemen.

The current system does a miserable job of protecting the family rights of deployed soldiers and sailors. For more information, see my columns The Betrayal of the Military Father (Los Angeles Daily News, 5/4/03) and Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day (Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 11/11/03), and my co-authored column Military Service Costs Some Men Their Children (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3/16/04).  As I've noted several times on the air, it amazes me that we have tens of thousands of fathers marching through Iraq and Afghanistan getting shot at and our government can't lift a finger to try to protect their rights to their children.

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NBA Veteran Imprisoned for Falling Behind on CS

Billy Sims. Andre Rison. Ron LeFlore. Kal Daniels. James Brooks. Darryl Strawberry. Bennie Blades. Ralph Sampson. Roscoe Tanner. Chris Warren. Vernon Maxwell. James "Lights Out" Toney. Monte Reagor. 

Newspapers often carry accounts of retired professional athletes who are arrested for being behind on their child support obligations. In some cases these are men who have behaved selfishly towards their children. In others, drug or alcohol problems have played a major role. Yet in many others the problem is that the retired athlete is being required to pay child support based on a high professional salary he no longer earns. According to family law attorney Lisa Scott, getting a downward modification on child support is "one of the most difficult tasks" faced by lawyers who represent fathers.

John Williams, a married father of a 3 year-old boy, played in the NBA from 1986 to 1995. Upon leaving the NBA he fell hopelessly behind on his child support, and is now serving a one year prison sentence for what prosecutors fancifully called "Willful Non-Payment of Child Support." This to pay for a child for whom he had already paid over $90,000 in child support.

"The prosecutors had no interest in dealing fairly with my husband or even in getting more child support for John's teenage son," says Fayne Williams, John's wife. "All they wanted was to grandstand and get publicity by punishing John. Everybody else loses."

Fayne Williams and Lisa Scott will join Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks on Sunday, January 9 at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST.

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