September 13, 2009
If You Can’t Do The Time, Pay The Support!
I just don’t get how this happens, especially if you have the money!
If you don’t have it, it’s different. And, yes just because you play football does not mean you always have it….but you are more likely to than not! Former NFL linebacker Dwayne Rudd has pleaded guilty to failure to pay more than $540,000 in child support. Wow! That is A LOT of money!
The U.S. attorney in Nashville announced this past Wednesday that Rudd, who played for Minnesota, Cleveland and Tampa Bay during his seven-season career, pleaded guilty in federal court last week and faces up to two years in prison, which sounds like someone was extremely angry with him and his failure to pay his child support obligations!
Court records shows that Rudd, who is 31 and lives in Atlanta, owes child support for his 11-year-old daughter, who currently lives with her mother in Tennessee.
Drafted by the Vikings in 1997, Rudd may be best known for costing the Browns a win against Kansas City in 2002.
According to court records, Rudd’s yearly income while in the NFL was about $5 million and since retiring he has been receiving annuity payments of about $11,000 a month, as well as income from investment sources and real estate income.
Rudd and Stacie Wade had a child in 1998, but never married. He was ordered by an Illinois state court to pay $7,500 per month in child support, but prosecutors say he consistently failed to pay.
“This is another sad example of a parent who has the means to pay child support, failing to meet his court-ordered responsibilities,” said U.S. Attorney Ed Yarbrough.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 30.
Shaking My Head (SMH)….only because he actually had the money and didn’t pay!!
Child Support in California 