In the late ‘80s, my 1st ex-husband stopped paying child support for my 3 sons.
After he told us he wasn’t making any money and was “only eating a slice of bologna for dinner”, I contacted CT Child Support Enforcement because I could prove otherwise.
He was mandated to show up in Bridgeport court every week (as was I) and told the judge each week he wasn’t working and had to show proof he had been “out looking for a job”.
At one of the court visits, the judge finally let me speak and I was able to show her proof that he was in fact working.
He was a very well known illustrator and I showed the judge several of his recently published illustrations.
The judge immediately had him handcuffed and taken to the Bridgeport Jail for 2 weeks.
While there, he called my young sons and told them not to worry, that he was spending his days eating 3 good meals, playing lots of chess and doing lots of drawings of his cell mates’ children in exchange for cigarettes!
After the 2 weeks, I told my 3 sons that their dad had gotten out of jail.
My oldest said: “Awww - Poor Dad! Now he has to eat one slice of bologna for dinner, again!”
