January 16, 2026 • 8 mins
Imagine checking your paycheck and realizing money is being taken out for child support… for a child you’ve never met, in a state you’ve never lived in. 😳 That’s exactly what’s happening in a viral story that has people seriously questioning how broken the system can be. On The Jubal Show, the crew breaks down this unbelievable case, the lawsuit that followed, and why the government says it’s easier to keep taking the money.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine this, It's the Jubill Show. It's payday, and you
log into your bank account and realize that the take
from the past few weeks of working your fingers to
the bone seems a little bit light. So you start
inspecting your check and realize that you've been paying child
support for a kid that you don't know, that lives
in a different state, and that wasn't created by you
(00:23):
doing the Louisiana shuffle with your mother. And then you
call to say, hey, that baby isn't mine, but the
powers that be all like, whatever, you have to pay
for the kid. Anyway, you'd be angry, right, Yeah, Well,
that's a real thing that could happen to you. And
I say that because there's a story going viral. It's crazy,
but also as people freaked out that their hard earned
(00:44):
money could just be taken away from them to pay
for a kid who isn't theirs and there's nothing they
can do about it. Here's the story. A forty five
year old dude in Dallas, who already pays child support
for two daughters in Texas, first learned something was wrong
after receiving a formal notice demanding fourteen hundred dollars in
back child support for a five year old girl that
(01:05):
lives in Florida, a state that he's never lived in, visited,
or accidentally to father to child in that he knows of.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A deeper review of his.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Pay stuffs revealed that, starting in January twenty twenty three,
the state had quietly added a third child to his
wage garnishment, deducting an extra one hundred and twenty six
dollars per paycheck.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
For child support. Oh random?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why for a kid that isn't his, lives in a
state that he's never even been in, and he's paying
child support for him? He said, I just assumed it
was taxes or inflation or whatever. And then he checked
it out and he found out that they were taking
child support for a kid who isn't his at all,
He's never met and lives in a different state. After
(01:49):
tracking down the child's mother in Florida and confirming there
was a clerical mix up involving another man with the
same perst and last name, oh wowch sucks yeah, officials initially,
officials initially assured him the issue would be corrected. However,
last week, the woman filed a lawsuit requesting that the
(02:12):
payments remain in place, what citing a financial alliance, and
that the administrative continuity, and that her filing what her filing.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Describes as good faith receipt.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Of funds because she basically doesn't want to stop receiving
child support because they probably can't track down the other dude.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was about to say, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
We're talking about a guy who's making national headlines because
his wages were garnished for child support for a kid
that isn't his, that lives in a different state that he's,
and the woman is now suing him, saying that she
doesn't want the payments to stop, even though she knows
the kid is in his Her attorney argued that while
the identity error is unfortunate, the child has been supported
(02:58):
for three years under a law full court order and
a sudden stop in payments could negatively impact the household.
It goes on to say, and while this man may
have never met the child or the mother and is
definitely not the biological father, he has become. He has
been paying support, and he has become their financial father
figure actually took this and the lack of support would
(03:23):
just perpetuate another absent father in the child's life, and
would retraumatize the mother who has become dependent on the money,
because it would be another man leaving her empty handed.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It was like one hundred and twenty four dollars a
month or something like that. Yeah, he's been paying it
for years, right, but to be going through all this
legal stuff like for that amount seems ridiculous to me.
I just think it's such a shocking response.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If you find out you've been taking money from somebody
that it shouldn't be yours, I'd.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Let me find a way to repay you that not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Like, no, I can't find the real dad, So I
want this guy to keep paying child support for my kid.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's hard out here. Maybe that's the one hundred and
twenty four dollars we're keeping the lights on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What other people do?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just go to some other dude, make them fall in
love with you, and then.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
He could pay for it and only fans account. That's
right there, answer those of all the answers.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Meanwhile, the state confirmed that it is an accident and
a clerical error, but it will continue to garnish the
man's wages because it's a process, The process of fixing
it would take several weeks to several fiscal quarters to
figure out.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So they're just going to continue to garnish the guy's wages.
Oh my gosh, who's lazy enough? Like what that's the
way the law works, honestly. Like, I've been through a
divorce and some custody not custody stuff, but child support stuff,
and you definitely just have to go with it until
you fight it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The worse things are crazy, right, because like it is insane.
Somebody could like I literally had money stolen from an
account of mine, right, quite quite a few dollars, And
I'm like, hey, if that would happen on the street, right,
But this person went into an account that they're currently
not supposed to be in thousands of dollars. That would
be a felony. Am I correct? And They're like yeah,
(05:11):
but this is a divorce, it's different, And I'm like,
how is that different? Can I call the police and say, hey,
this is a felony. This person stole thousands of dollars
from my account And they're like, no, they don't.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can, they don't. They won't give it the time because.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Love.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I feel like they're just like, it was your fault
to marry this person, so now everything that happens after
the fact is now your fault too. I'm not saying
that's what it's crazy. I'm just saying that that could
be what it is. And sometimes I do think that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We're talking about the stories that's gone viral and has
a lot of people freaked out because of what the
government is doing. In the case, but a man was
having his wages garners for child support for a child
that isn't his, that he's never met, that lives in
a different state. The woman doesn't want the child support
to stop because she doesn't want time to go away,
so she wants to sue to keep it going, and
the government has just been like, were We're gonna keep
guarding you're waged. A spokesperson for the government explained that
(06:04):
stopping garnishment prematurely could create accounting complications, and they said
it's easier to keep taking the money. They literally said,
it's just that you don't have to do anything. They
said they would have to figure out who has been
taking it. We'd first have to locate the real father,
and that involves a lot of paperwork.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wow, Wow, you have to do your job.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, well, now find this guy and all my money's
getting taken away. I'm going to demand to know the child.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Demand cards every Father's day. I'm going to be like,
tell me you love me every day, five times a day,
Like you got to have some kind of gifts, Like
if the kid is cool, then maybe you'll feel a
little bit better about being like completely like stolen from
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When the man visited the Attorney General's office, staff reportedly
pulled up a photo of the actual father who has
dreadlocks the other guys. I don't know why they felt
to put the factor there, and he said that ain't me,
and despite acknowledging their officials warned him that suing the
state would likely cost more in legal fees that he's
(07:10):
trying to recover. So basically like, if you sue us,
it's going to cost you more, so you might as
well just keep taking it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I would rather just sue just for the help.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right now you're trying to put for now, the dude
is still paying child support for two dollars that are
his one. He's never met a state that he's never
lived in and being told eventually he might get his
money back.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Started really, I'm dead opportunities.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The man is still having his pay stubs garnished to
support the child and commented, I guess I'm co parenting
by accident.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Kid though anyway, Yeah, I mean I would be like, well,
I'm going to pay for this kid.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I want to least, you know, tell Scott Schurets to
do discipline, you know. Yeah, I've got stuff that needs
fixing around the house. Bring the kid out over the summer.
I'll put them to work. I mean, I don't know.
I got to get my money back somehow,
Imagine this, It's the Jubill Show. It's payday, and you
log into your bank account and realize that the take
from the past few weeks of working your fingers to
the bone seems a little bit light. So you start
inspecting your check and realize that you've been paying child
support for a kid that you don't know, that lives
in a different state, and that wasn't created by you
(00:23):
doing the Louisiana shuffle with your mother. And then you
call to say, hey, that baby isn't mine, but the
powers that be all like, whatever, you have to pay
for the kid. Anyway, you'd be angry, right, Yeah, Well,
that's a real thing that could happen to you. And
I say that because there's a story going viral. It's crazy,
but also as people freaked out that their hard earned
(00:44):
money could just be taken away from them to pay
for a kid who isn't theirs and there's nothing they
can do about it. Here's the story. A forty five
year old dude in Dallas, who already pays child support
for two daughters in Texas, first learned something was wrong
after receiving a formal notice demanding fourteen hundred dollars in
back child support for a five year old girl that
(01:05):
lives in Florida, a state that he's never lived in, visited,
or accidentally to father to child in that he knows of.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A deeper review of his.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Pay stuffs revealed that, starting in January twenty twenty three,
the state had quietly added a third child to his
wage garnishment, deducting an extra one hundred and twenty six
dollars per paycheck.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
For child support. Oh random?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why for a kid that isn't his, lives in a
state that he's never even been in, and he's paying
child support for him? He said, I just assumed it
was taxes or inflation or whatever. And then he checked
it out and he found out that they were taking
child support for a kid who isn't his at all,
He's never met and lives in a different state. After
(01:49):
tracking down the child's mother in Florida and confirming there
was a clerical mix up involving another man with the
same perst and last name, oh wowch sucks yeah, officials initially,
officials initially assured him the issue would be corrected. However,
last week, the woman filed a lawsuit requesting that the
(02:12):
payments remain in place, what citing a financial alliance, and
that the administrative continuity, and that her filing what her filing.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Describes as good faith receipt.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Of funds because she basically doesn't want to stop receiving
child support because they probably can't track down the other dude.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was about to say, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
We're talking about a guy who's making national headlines because
his wages were garnished for child support for a kid
that isn't his, that lives in a different state that he's,
and the woman is now suing him, saying that she
doesn't want the payments to stop, even though she knows
the kid is in his Her attorney argued that while
the identity error is unfortunate, the child has been supported
(02:58):
for three years under a law full court order and
a sudden stop in payments could negatively impact the household.
It goes on to say, and while this man may
have never met the child or the mother and is
definitely not the biological father, he has become. He has
been paying support, and he has become their financial father
figure actually took this and the lack of support would
(03:23):
just perpetuate another absent father in the child's life, and
would retraumatize the mother who has become dependent on the money,
because it would be another man leaving her empty handed.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It was like one hundred and twenty four dollars a
month or something like that. Yeah, he's been paying it
for years, right, but to be going through all this
legal stuff like for that amount seems ridiculous to me.
I just think it's such a shocking response.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If you find out you've been taking money from somebody
that it shouldn't be yours, I'd.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Let me find a way to repay you that not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Like, no, I can't find the real dad, So I
want this guy to keep paying child support for my kid.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's hard out here. Maybe that's the one hundred and
twenty four dollars we're keeping the lights on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What other people do?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just go to some other dude, make them fall in
love with you, and then.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
He could pay for it and only fans account. That's
right there, answer those of all the answers.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Meanwhile, the state confirmed that it is an accident and
a clerical error, but it will continue to garnish the
man's wages because it's a process, The process of fixing
it would take several weeks to several fiscal quarters to
figure out.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So they're just going to continue to garnish the guy's wages.
Oh my gosh, who's lazy enough? Like what that's the
way the law works, honestly. Like, I've been through a
divorce and some custody not custody stuff, but child support stuff,
and you definitely just have to go with it until
you fight it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The worse things are crazy, right, because like it is insane.
Somebody could like I literally had money stolen from an
account of mine, right, quite quite a few dollars, And
I'm like, hey, if that would happen on the street, right,
But this person went into an account that they're currently
not supposed to be in thousands of dollars. That would
be a felony. Am I correct? And They're like yeah,
(05:11):
but this is a divorce, it's different, And I'm like,
how is that different? Can I call the police and say, hey,
this is a felony. This person stole thousands of dollars
from my account And they're like, no, they don't.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You can, they don't. They won't give it the time because.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Love.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I feel like they're just like, it was your fault
to marry this person, so now everything that happens after
the fact is now your fault too. I'm not saying
that's what it's crazy. I'm just saying that that could
be what it is. And sometimes I do think that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
We're talking about the stories that's gone viral and has
a lot of people freaked out because of what the
government is doing. In the case, but a man was
having his wages garners for child support for a child
that isn't his, that he's never met, that lives in
a different state. The woman doesn't want the child support
to stop because she doesn't want time to go away,
so she wants to sue to keep it going, and
the government has just been like, were We're gonna keep
guarding you're waged. A spokesperson for the government explained that
(06:04):
stopping garnishment prematurely could create accounting complications, and they said
it's easier to keep taking the money. They literally said,
it's just that you don't have to do anything. They
said they would have to figure out who has been
taking it. We'd first have to locate the real father,
and that involves a lot of paperwork.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wow, Wow, you have to do your job.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, well, now find this guy and all my money's
getting taken away. I'm going to demand to know the child.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Demand cards every Father's day. I'm going to be like,
tell me you love me every day, five times a day,
Like you got to have some kind of gifts, Like
if the kid is cool, then maybe you'll feel a
little bit better about being like completely like stolen from
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When the man visited the Attorney General's office, staff reportedly
pulled up a photo of the actual father who has
dreadlocks the other guys. I don't know why they felt
to put the factor there, and he said that ain't me,
and despite acknowledging their officials warned him that suing the
state would likely cost more in legal fees that he's
(07:10):
trying to recover. So basically like, if you sue us,
it's going to cost you more, so you might as
well just keep taking it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I would rather just sue just for the help.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right now you're trying to put for now, the dude
is still paying child support for two dollars that are
his one. He's never met a state that he's never
lived in and being told eventually he might get his
money back.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Started really, I'm dead opportunities.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
The man is still having his pay stubs garnished to
support the child and commented, I guess I'm co parenting
by accident.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Kid though anyway, Yeah, I mean I would be like, well,
I'm going to pay for this kid.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I want to least, you know, tell Scott Schurets to
do discipline, you know. Yeah, I've got stuff that needs
fixing around the house. Bring the kid out over the summer.
I'll put them to work. I mean, I don't know.
I got to get my money back somehow,
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