Texas lawyer uses controversial ad to warn men on child support

[davidn3600]

Local attorney Mark Davis is taking a cynical approach to what he says is a growing problem in the state of Texas. Davis created an advertisement that is targeted toward women. It asks them how they would like to make thousands of dollars by staying at home, and instructs them how to do so by following simple steps.

1) Get pregnant and have a baby.
2) Once the baby is born, get rid of the father.
3) Get child support money by using a state-appointed, free attorney to sue the father.
4) Spend the money on trips without the child.
5) Spend the money on drinking, expensive restaurants, and clubs.

"Guess what? That's all legal in Texas," Davis said. The ad then targets men, telling them that if the mentioned scenario sounds familiar, call him and lawyer up because the world isn't fair, and they need to even the odds.

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"What this poster brings up is a serious problem, there's no accountability. What happens is, when someone has to pay child support, they pay it to the Attorney General, then the Attorney General issues a card, it looks like a credit card, and with that credit card, that parent can access the money. Where can they use that credit card? At any bar they want to in El Paso, they're accepted at bars all over and you can charge drinks on it all night, they can buy drinks for their new boyfriend, or maybe even a pair of new sunglasses."

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/el-paso-attorney-uses-controversial-ad-warn-men-child-support-1276.shtml

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Oh good lord.

(((FACEPALM)))

I live in Texas, I am a divorced woman with a child, and I had to pay the father child support for many years until the child graduated from high school. I had far more education than he did, but he was the one with the steady job and the health insurance. He really didn't need the money I paid, and sometimes it was difficult to scrape up, but I paid it so I wouldn't go to jail. I was absolutely terrified of being unemployed for long. I have a law degree. Couldn't get a paralegal job with it.


He sued my parents with an interpleader during MY divorce from him, so they had to liquidate the trust fund they set up for our child, to pay for their legal bills, and he was warned not to jeopardize our child's education by this. He sued them anyway. He paid for all of our child's college education because he blew up her college fund started by her grandparents.


Texas has no-fault divorce (discord or conflict of personalities is the boilerplate language) and women have equal rights and responsibilities, due to the Spanish law influence.


Women are PRESUMED to be equally capable of supporting a child as the father.

So this guy is just fanning the flames of the "father's rights" supporters who, from what I have seen, think all women are unfit mothers who don't deserve a dime in separate maintenance (NOTE: we do not have alimony in Texas, we have "separate maintenance" for a limited time) or any child support. Usually the men who refuse to pay it are often rich doctors and lawyers.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Unfortunately, some use this strategy.

[SheilaT]

3. Wow.

And when I think of all the men who simply don't pay child support . . . well, the mind boggles.

Even Steven Jobs, (oh, St Steven!) claimed he was infertile when a girlfriend was pregnant with his child.

Men will do ANYTHING to avoid responsibility for the children they sire. I have long said that women should simply dump the children on the fathers. Then maybe, eventually, men will finally get it about the responsibility of being a parent.