Joe Walsh Child Support: Ex-Tea Party Rep Says He Can't Afford Payments Post-Congress

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Joe Walsh Child Support: Ex-Tea Party Rep Says He Can't Afford Payments Post-Congress
Posted: 02/12/2013 10:13 am EST | Updated: 02/12/2013 6:56 pm EST

During his unsuccessful campaign to be reelected to Congress, outspoken former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh could never quite live down the label of "deadbeat dad" -- and on Monday, the issue of his child support payments resurfaced yet again.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported late Monday afternoon that Walsh, a Tea Party Republican favorite who represented Illinois' 8th District, filed a request on Feb. 1 in Cook County Circuit Court to drastically reduce his child support obligation due to his employment being "terminated through no voluntary act of his own."

In the filing, according to the Sun-Times, Walsh's attorneys claimed the ex-congressman does not have adequate income with which to make payments such as the $2,134 payment his former wife Laura Walsh's attorney claims he skipped last month.

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Walsh further denied that he was stopping support -- instead, he is aiming for his support payment to be reduced to 20 percent of his net income through his youngest, 18-year-old son's graduation from high school this May, given his unemployment. Walsh wrote in the post that he "expect(s) to be employed again very soon." According to Fox Chicago, he is currently weighing "two very interesting opportunities" -- one in local media and another in politics.



unhappycamper comment: Pay up, Asshole.

I ate fucking beans and rice for over a year when I was assessed (by Massachusetts) for $50 grand when my daughter decided to go to Holy Cross College. And I still had to pay $374 a week in child support while she was in school.