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Young father who owes €6k in child maintenance is warned he could go to jail
Summary
A young father who owes €5,887 in child maintenance to the mother of his son was warned by Judge Gerard Furlong at Dublin District Family Court that failure to comply could lead to imprisonment. The father explained that he had been unemployed for the last few months and proposed paying €20 per week in maintenance, reduced from €50, plus €10 per week towards the debt. The judge accepted the proposal as reasonable and ruled accordingly, but cautioned that ignoring the arrangement would result in prison. In a separate matter, the same father claimed he had received text messages from his estranged wife that appeared to be from their daughter, which he said were not authentic. The judge extended the father's visitation rights to include an overnight stay once a month, to be reviewed later in the year.
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What: Report matter: Young father who owes €6k in child maintenance is warned he could go to jail. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
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- 2017-07-24 Publication
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