Jailed father hunger strikes to protest child support

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2010-05-21 03:21

Story here. Excerpt:

'Kenyon Eastin, 41, is on day four of a hunger strike from within the Tooele County Jail, protesting the treatment he has received in Utah divorce court.

That's according to man's girlfriend of three years, Niki Hammond, of Stansbury Park (pictured at right with Eastin). Eastin first went to jail for 15 days in January 2009, but was released due to overcrowding. The jail is still over-crowded--Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park even admits the facility is violating people's civil rights due to the crowd--but 3rd District Judge Stephen Henriod sent Eastin back to jail Friday for 30 days for contempt of court and non-payment of child support. Hammond says Eastin can not afford to hire and attorney and has not been appointed one by the court.

That's despite documents from the Office of Recovery Services that show Eastin not only made regular payments for each month of 2009, but paid $500 above those payments toward his arrears total. According to his court docket in his divorce, Eastin owed $9,596 in arrears as of March 19, 2009, the most recent data available.'

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It is not the state's damned business to set a varing amount of money to support a child or children of a divorce. The state's only compeling interest is that the bare minimum of support is provide as in an intact marriage.

Anything above that has to be decided by the parents. The state represented by a failed lawyer in a black sheet has no business being a "life coach" deciding if orthodontic work should be allowed by court decree or if cheerleading uniforms should be ordered by the threat of imprisonment or even death. The list can go on and on.

I hope Mr. Eastin wins his battle against the bastards. He is a real hero.

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Submitted by Luek on Fri, 2010-05-21 16:52