Indiana ‘Deadbeat’ Politician David Snyder Jailed for Child Support

2007-07-29
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I’ve written before about the saga of Indiana politician David Snyder, who has been under fire for allegedly being a “deadbeat dad.”

Snyder wrote to me, asserting that his child support arrearage (which he claimed was $60,000, not $90,000 as previous reports indicated) was caused by a combination of factors which will sound familiar to many of the divorced dads among my readers.

These include: child support based on an income well beyond what Snyder was actually earning; unequal division of marital property; legal bills; periods of unemployment or underemployment; his ex-wife using the legal system to tie up and then destroy his business; and stiff penalties and interest on the arrearages.

In the middle of all of this Snyder says he contracted cancer. He also claims that his ex-wife alienated his children and poisoned them against him.

I don’t know if all of this is true, but I’ve received thousands of letters from fathers telling me the same types of stories, so his claims are certainly plausible. To learn more, click here.

According to news reports,  Snyder was recently jailed until he borrowed $10,000 from friends to get out. The article appears below. The only thing in the article which really contradicts Snyder’s version of the events is the 2003 Jaguar–if anybody knows the details on that, please let me know.

Snyder pays $10,400 for early release–Roseland Town Council member was jailed for failure to pay child support
South Bend Tribune, 7/27/07

Roseland Town Council member David Snyder decided to pay some of his back child support and was released about 4 1/2 hours after he was sent to jail Thursday.

Probate Court Magistrate Rochelle Cotter ordered Snyder to serve 45 days in jail after finding last month he was in contempt of court for nonpayment of child support.

She said he could be released early if he paid $10,400, or 10 percent of the amount he owes.

Snyder was taken into custody immediately after a court hearing at the Frederick Juvenile Justice Center.

Cotter ordered a sentence of 90 days in the county jail, but suspended 45 days of it.

Snyder was released shortly before 3:30 p.m.

“A lot of people who care deeply about David came to his rescue, said his wife, Dorothy, regarding the sum she put together to free her husband. ‘We expect to pay it back, We don’t know anyone who’s independently wealthy.”

Borrowing money is what they had to do in 2005, she said, when Snyder had to pay $11,250 or go to jail. (more…)

Fathers & Families: Advocacy for the Child-Father Bond
Fathers & Families is a non-profit organization advocating for the right of every child to have two parents. Fathers are an essential part of a child’s life–divorce or separation should not change this. www.FathersandFamilies.org
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  • mruffolo

    I suspect, like most politicians, David Snyder supported women causes.

    Now it is the cause of his incarceration.

  • Robert Stevens

    The child support system is nothing but a government sponsored extortion racket. It is by “REAL LAW” a criminal act, the state has NO RIGHT to take your child, then by terroristic threat, extort money from you pocket to support this criminal act.
    The state by fraudulent converstion has taken ownership of your children and now wants to dictate you , the parent , how to raise IT’S children. It, the state, is running a little PONZI Scheme off the backs of ” noncustodial parents”.
    You see the state is broke, all it can use to operate is the sweat and labor of the people and the child support thing is just another facet of this scheme.
    Sooner or later, I suspect sooner, the little fraud will fall apart and those government thieves, criminals and terrorist who ran it, will instead be running for their lives. Because when those people they have been oppressing and victimizing get their hands on them, I seriously doubt if the theiving bastards will live long enough to stand trial. Not that they will live after the trial, after alll penalty for treason and other crimes against humanity, has always meant a death sentence.
    At that point, we will have to pick up and rebuild. And we never… never get forgetful or just plain stupid enough to ever allow what they did to ever happen again.

  • http://www.decriminalizefatherhood.com DcFather

    Q. What do you call a parent who has done nothing wrong, had her children taken from her against her will, has massive demands for money put upon her as a result, and then is unwilling or unable to pay in full or on time?

    A. A “deadbeat dad”, but only when this is done to male parents of course.

  • http://whatmenthinkofwomen.blogspot.com/ christianj

    This is good, the more politicians they lock up the better. The more males that get screwed in the family court the better. Hopefully it will produce a backlash and kick the feminazy back where it came from with it’s incomprehensible laws, dogma and doctrines…

  • amfortas

    I have a generic sympathy for David Snyder simply based on the treatment of most men after divorce. I would be interested to hear a little about his voting record and his activism to change the current misandric laws. Then maybe I can take him off my equally generic Tailoring list.

  • Joi

    It’s hard to feel sorry for this guy… After all he’s a polititian. Now he got what other men get. Ya reap what ya sow.






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