New Family Texas Law Claims First Victim African American Dad Separated From his Son and Sent to Jail after Employer Makes Crucial Child Support Withholding Error

New Family Texas Law Claims First Victim African American Dad Separated From his Son and Sent to Jail after Employer Makes Crucial Child Support Withholding Error: This past Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Clifford Hall, the 43-year-old Texas father whose complex child support case received international attention last year when he received the harshest punishment for failure to pay child support under Texas law, voluntarily arrived at the Harris County Civil Courthouse and was taken into custody to begin a six-month jail sentence.

The reason the Hall case gained so much international attention, is because Hall was unaware that the child support payments being withheld from his check were not getting to the court due to his employer’s clerical error. Once Hall discovered the payments were not being made by his employer, AT&T, to his child’s mother, he corrected the situation and paid an additional $1,000. AT&T acknowledged that the error was its’ fault during the appeal process, but not at the hearing in which Hall was initially found in contempt of court for late payments.