Child abandonment warrant in Dekalb County, Georgia
I recently filed an application for child abandonment against my ex and we go to court for it on April 2, 2010. Here is my situation : I got a child support order in place as of 11/2007 and he was ordered to pay $200 per month plus $50 interest if in arrears. When we went to court on that date we both had to fill out income sheets. At the time I was working full time so my gross pay was around $4000 per month. He deliberately put zeros going down the entire sheet claiming to have nothing, and he said he was living with his grandparents. I didn't learn until months later that he lied, come to find out he had an apartment where he was paying around $650 per month in rent, plus he received a lump sum of $15,000 for his Social Security Disability check; reminder : he already had all this at the time we signed the court order, so he didn't report ANY of this. He gets a check because he is bipolar. Second, since 11/2007 he has only made four payments that total around $1100. Two of those payments were involuntary meaning the state sent them to me because he was in a work program while incarcerated.
DHS is now in the process of serving him for Contempt as well. Is it possible that since I have a judgement against him I could subpoena his old apartment complex to see what figures he put in for income to use this in Contempt court against him? Also since he received that lump sum from Social Security and lied on his income sheet in court, could that be used for income to increase my child support amount?
He was incarcerated July 2008 until December 2009 on other charges so now he owes me around $6000! He just started back getting his Social Security check and I reported this to DHS and they said that they sent SSA a letter but I haven't heard back yet. Do you think when we go to court my amount will increase cause now all I get is unemployment and a $99 Social Security check for my daughter because of him? He gets $635 a month.
What is going to happen at the abandonment hearing? Out of spite he has started sending derogatory messages to my phone and picture messages of him sitting in front of a table full of money shotting the finger at me. What can I do??