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Please I bet there will still be delays, no matter what. Lunch break, smoke breaks, and any other break they can think of.
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Child support or Life Support
Christie and David Bren just want what's due them, their lawyer says; no more, no less. And by their calculations, that could be about $2.2 million a month -- each.
The teenage children of billionaire Orange County land developer Donald L. Bren will return to court Jan. 3 to try to force their father to pay child support commensurate with his wealth.
click to enlargeThe dispute, according legal experts, has potential implications for the way courts determine child support and is the latest in a series of legal battles in which California's rich and famous have fought to keep their financial holdings private.
Last year, for example, supermarket billionaire Ronald Burkle tried repeatedly to keep his personal finances secret in a bitter divorce, leading to a ruling that overturned a state law allowing litigants to seal court records.
According to court papers, Bren had two children with Jennifer McKay Gold, whom he never married. For years, the couple had an out-of-court agreement on the amount of financial support the billionaire would pay for the children. Ultimately, Gold and the children went to court, arguing that Bren wasn't paying enough. The dispute sparked a series of lawsuits and legal appeals.
The current litigation centers largely on a complex formula that judges typically use to fashion support orders. To craft those orders, judges require detailed financial information on a parent's ability to pay, as well as information on the amount of time each parent spends with the child. Judges can change the support amount suggested under the formula depending on the unique circumstances of a case, experts said.
Under state law, child support is largely based on the parents' income, so the child can share in the same standard of living as the wealthier parent. There is no upper limit on the amount of support that can be ordered. The average child support order in Los Angeles County is $345 per month, said Al Reyes of the county Child Support Services Department.
Grace Ganz Blumberg, a professor at the UCLA School of Law who helped create the child support formula, said the system was set up for the average litigant, not the very rich.
"Child support rules . . . don't make a lot of sense when applied to people of extraordinary means," she said.
One issue a judge must determine, Blumberg said, is whether Christie, 19, and David, 15, have a legitimate need for their father's financial information, or whether they are seeking it as a ploy to harass him in hopes of receiving an enormous settlement.
Herma Hill Kay, a professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, was skeptical of Bren's claims.
"Because you've got a lot of money, you don't need to abide by the disclosure rules? That argument doesn't work," Kay said. "The court has to apply the guidelines any time a judge sets child support. Saying 'I have more' won't take the court off the hook."
According to court papers, Bren and Gold signed an agreement in 1989 after a seven-month negotiation that provided Gold $3,500 per month of general support for each child.
The amount was increased to $5,000 a month in 1991, and was revised again later to provide an additional $2,500 a month for private school costs.
In turn, she agreed not to go to court, and to keep his relationship with them a secret. According to Bren's lawyers, Bren paid $17,000 a month for each child, tax-free.
Bren promised "always to take care of the children," Gold alleged in court papers. The developer made all payments, but declined her separate requests for a new car and a piano, according to court papers.
In 1997, Gold alleges, Bren stopped seeing the children after she told him over dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel that she "wanted to change their relationship, that she wanted to no longer be intimately involved with him."
Four years later, Gold said she ran into Bren at the Ivy, an exclusive restaurant near Beverly Hills, where he "refused to speak to the children or acknowledge them."
In 2003, Christie and David went to court alleging that Bren broke his promise to support them in a style commensurate with his wealth. Read more...
Child Support Lawsuit Dropped Against Dwayne Dail
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Goldsboro — A child support lawsuit for back child support against a Wayne County man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit has been dropped.
Dwayne Dail said the suit, filed in November by his former girlfriend Lorraine Michaels for back child support while he was in prison, was dismissed Friday.
But he said he could not comment on the deal but was happy the matter was resolved.
"I am very happy and relieved to have this black cloud removed from me and my son's bonding process," Dail said. "And I hope that there can begin some healing between me and Lori, too. This has been extremely difficult for everyone involved."
Michaels sued for a "reasonable sum" of a $360,000 compensatory payment Dail is due from the state for his wrongful imprisonment.
Earlier this month, a judge ruled Michaels should receive only a portion, if any, of the payment
Dail spent 18 years in prison for the rape of a 12-year-old girl. He was exonerated by DNA evidence in August.
He is expected to receive that by the end of January and said said he plans to use it to buy a house for him and his son and enroll them both in college. Dail said he wants to pursue a career in criminal justice to help other innocent people in prison.
"I want to have that feeling of having helped someone who is desperately in need of help," he said.
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