Rainman357
New Member
My wife took my children from me around seventeen years ago, and I have not been able to be in thier lives sense. She moved out of our family home while I was away on business-working. She has not sought out work for herself but instead decided to live on welfare for all this time. She has never gone to court to request child support from me because she wanted to keep me from being part of my childrens lives. She knew if she had gone to court, that the court would have awarded me partial custody and or given me visitation rights. Now after seventeen years the state of nebraska wants me to pay them back all the money they have paid out to her. I went to them back when she moved out and asked them to help me find my children and they knew where she was because she had already applied for welfare. They refused to help me and said they are not obligated to help me just because I am the father. I feel that between them ( the State of nebraska) and my ex that they are responcible for her being on welfare for such a long period of time. I called the child support office in Lincoln and was told that this was not actually child support, it was just a debt and that they expect me to pay it to them. Can I be held responcible for this debt when I had nothing to do with the debt being created in the first place.