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Texas law goes into effect requiring drunk drivers who kill a parent to pay child support



A Texas law requires drunk drivers to pay child support if they cause the death of a parent. The commonsense measure took effect on Friday after being signed by Lone Star State Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year in June.

"Any time a parent passes is tragic, but a death at the hands of a drunk driver is especially heinous," Abbott tweeted in July. "I was proud to sign HB 393 into law this year to require offenders to pay child support for the children of their victims."

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The payments will be required of individuals convicted of intoxication manslaughter involving the death of a child's parent or guardian. The court will consider various factors when deciding the amount of the monthly payments, and the payments will be required until the child turns 18 or graduates from high school, whichever occurs later.

In the event that the guilty party cannot make the payments while incarcerated, he or she will be required to start shelling out the money no later than the first anniversary of the date of release.

"The defendant may enter into a payment plan to address any arrearage that exists on the date of the defendant's release. The defendant must pay all arrearages regardless of whether the restitution payments were scheduled to terminate while the defendant was confined or imprisoned in the correctional facility," the text of the measure states.

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Judge admonishes Hunter Biden over allegations he is hiding financial docs to reduce child support payments



An Arkansas judge admonished Hunter Biden in court on Monday as the first son seeks to reduce his monthly child support payments for his 4-year-old daughter.

What is the background?

In 2020, a paternity test revealed that Hunter Biden fathered a child with Arkansas woman Lunden Roberts. At the time, Biden agreed to pay child support payments to his daughter, Navy Joan, in monthly installments of $20,000.

But last September, Biden asked a court to reduce his payments, arguing there had been a "substantial material change" to his financial circumstances despite previously having made millions of dollars in overseas business deals.

The request allowed Roberts to request documents and information related to Biden's finances. But in December, attorney Clinton Lancaster, who represents Roberts, accused Biden of "attempting to stifle discovery into his financial affairs." Finally, Roberts asked the court last week to hold Biden in contempt of court for allegedly withholding evidence and ignoring court orders.

What is happening now?

On Monday, Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer presided over that contempt hearing.

At the hearing, Biden's high-dollar attorneys essentially painted their client as destitute, arguing that his only form of income comes from a New York art gallery. But they don't have records showing who bought his art or at what price it was purchased.

From the Washington Free Beacon:

Biden's lawyers objected to attempts by Roberts's team to frame him as privileged and wealthy, arguing that he has only traveled on Air Force One one time and "stayed on a cot in his dad's room in Dublin" during their recent Ireland visit. Biden no longer owns a Porsche, and his lawyer Brent Langdon indicated it was repossessed. Biden now drives an unspecified car given to him by celebrity lawyer Kevin Morris.

But Meyer had zero patience for games. She told both parties to comply with records requests and stop obstructing the legal process. She also told Biden he needed to prove his case and ordered him to comply with requests for financial documents by May 12.

"If you come saying you want to reduce your child support, you need to show me why," Meyer said, according to the Free Beacon.

Additionally, Meyer told Biden's attorneys that the "ability to redact is somewhat being abused," referring to the alleged concealing of certain information in ficnancial documents.

Meanwhile, Meyer ordered Biden and Roberts to attend all future court dates in person. The issue of whether Biden is in contempt of court will be decided at a later date, the judge said.

Biden has reportedly never met his daughter.

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Hunter Biden ordered to appear in court and explain why he seeks to pay less in child support for the 4-year-old daughter he's neglected to meet



President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election. An Arkansas judge announced Monday the president's son is done running from accountability.

The Honorable Holly L. Meyer of the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Arkansas has ordered Hunter Biden, 53, to appear at the Independence County courthouse in Batesville on May 1 as well as for all subsequent hearings pertaining to his ongoing paternity case, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

"From now on ... I want both of your clients at every hearing I conduct," Meyer said. "I will no longer allow us to excuse clients ... because it is interfering with the progress of litigation, which is taking way too long to get over simple points."

The matter at hand is Hunter Biden's apparent desire to pay less in child support for the daughter he sired out of wedlock in 2018 with former stripper Lunden Roberts.

The long road to Arkansas

Following the birth of the Navy Joan Roberts, Biden denied being the father (a paternity test later proved his parentage "with near scientific certainty") and refused Roberts' pleas to help care for the child. Consequently, Roberts sued him in an Arkansas court.

TheBlaze reported that Biden defied the resulting court order to turn over financial information relevant to the case, refusing also to provide a list of the companies he owned or had an ownership interest in (e.g., Rosemont Seneca Partners, the "$2.4 billion private equity firm" he founded with former Secretary of State John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz) and a list of all of his sources of income.

To avoid a contempt charge, Biden agreed to pay child support retroactive to November 2018, and in January 2020, Roberts and Biden agreed on temporary child support.

Judge Meyer subsequently ordered that these payments were to continue indefinitely and to be paid on the first of each month.

The court order setting Biden's monetary obligations to Roberts and their daughter were filed under seal on March 12, 2020, approximately one year after he reportedly resigned from the board of Burisma, the energy exploration holding company based in Ukraine, where he was making roughly $50,000 per month.

Biden disturbed the status quo in September 2022, figuring he might be able to strike a new deal — one in which he would pay less in child support for the daughter that neither he nor his father, Joe Biden, have ever met.

The president's middle-aged son asked Judge Meyer to recalculate his child support payments, citing "a substantial material change" in his "financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income."
Clint Lancaster, Roberts' lawyer, suggested that Biden's efforts to pay less might prove costly, saying, "Ultimately, this is going to require us to look deeply, more deeply, into Hunter's finances."

Court or prison

Lawyers for Roberts argued in a Friday filing that Biden should be thrown in the Cleburne County Detention Center until such time as he complies with a court order to hand over documents pertaining to his financials, reported the Daily Mail.

According to Lancaster, Biden has been "[flouting] the dignity and authority of the court" by failing to satisfy discovery rules and deadlines, specified at a Feb. 22 hearing.

"In those two months, the defendant has provided no additional discovery — not so much as one single item or word — and has failed to supplement his answers at the court’s directive," Lancaster added in the filing. "There is no valid excuse or justification for the defendant’s failure to provide the required disclosures as the court has granted every single protective order the defendant has asked for since the inception of this case … the defendant is playing games with this court."

If the court would not lock Biden up, Roberts' lawyers wrote that it should instead "sanction the defendant as appropriate and just," noting that the first son should be ordered to appear.

An episode during a Zoom hearing Monday with attorneys for Biden and Roberts appears to have made Meyer's decision easier to make.

On the call, Brent Langdon, Biden's attorney in the case, tiptoed around the matter of the controversial Hunter Biden laptop, whereon income tax records are allegedly saved.

The Democrat-Gazette reported that Langdon referenced the laptop Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop in 2019 in relation to a potential expert witness in the case, Garrett Ziegler, a self-proclaimed experts on the device's contents.

"There has never been, to my knowledge, an acknowledgment that this so-called laptop — he continuously calls it Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop ..." said Langdon.

Judge Meyer interjected: "Well, let's clear that issue up right now. ... Is it your client's laptop or not?"

Langdon responded, "Your honor, I'm not involved in all of that stuff. ... It's not my client's laptop as far as I know."

The judged pressed Langdon on the matter, emphasizing that she holds clients to what their lawyers say in court.

"Is it your client's position, you're representing to this court, that it is not his laptop?" asked Judge Meyer.

Langdon answered, "Your honor, I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question."

Evidently tired of playing cat and mouse, Judge Meyer thereafter ordered Biden to Arkansas and indicated that both parties have to comply fully with discovery requests by May 22.

The trial is scheduled for July 24-25. Biden will also face grilling in a June deposition about his foreign entanglements and various business ventures.

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Hunter Biden wants to pay less in child support for the 4-year-old daughter he has never visited



President Joe Biden's 52-year-old son Hunter has asked a judge in Independence County, Arkansas, to recalculate his child support payments to former stripper Lunden Roberts, a former employee and the mother of the 4-year-old child he sired out of wedlock in 2018.

According to a court filing obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Biden cited "a substantial material change" in his "financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income," as justification to lower the amount to be paid in support.

Biden similarly suggested he was hard up for cash in November 2019, when he stated in an affidavit: "I am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019." Debts and obligations resulting from his divorce, he alleged, had proved "significant."

The first son moved out of a $5.4 million mansion in Venice Beach in 2021, out front of which he would park his six-figure-priced Porsche Panamera, and into a $20,000-a-month rental home in Malibu. Biden converted the three-car garage in his palatial new home into an art studio where he made some of the prints he sold last year for $75,000 each.

The court order setting Biden's monetary obligations to the Arkansas child and mother were filed under seal on March 12, 2020, approximately one year after he reportedly resigned from the board of Burisma, the energy exploration holding company based in Ukraine, where he was making roughly $50,000 per month.

As the order is under seal, it is unclear whether the calculation took into account the $4.8 million sent by the communist Chinese-affiliated CEFC China Energy company to a entity controlled by Biden and his uncle James Biden.

Roberts' lawyer, Clint Lancaster, suggested that Biden's efforts to pay less might prove costly. "Ultimately, this is going to require us to look deeply, more deeply, into Hunter's finances."

Before Biden's fight to pay less, he fought not to pay at all

Biden reportedly first met Roberts at the Mpire Gentlemen's Club in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a stripper. Shortly after breaking up with his dead brother's wife, Biden got Roberts pregnant.

The NY Post reported that Roberts — whom Biden claimed he had "no recollection" of meeting — had been on the payroll at the first son's now-defunct law firm Owasco PC during her pregnancy. After Roberts gave birth to the child, named Navy Joan, Biden promptly had Roberts kicked off the firm's health insurance plan.

Biden denied being the father (a paternity test later proved his parentage "with near scientific certainty") and refused Roberts' pleas to help care for the child. Consequently, Roberts sued him in an Arkansas court.

Biden defied the resulting court order to turn over financial information relevant to the case, refusing also to provide a list of the companies he owned or had an ownership interest in (e.g., Rosemont Seneca Partners, the "$2.4 billion private equity firm" he founded with former Secretary of State John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz) and a list of all of his sources of income. To avoid a contempt charge, Biden agreed to pay child support retroactive to November 2018.

Judge Holly Meyer subsequently ordered that these payments were to continue indefinitely and to be paid on the first of each month.

Republican lawmakers push pro-life bill to allow women to receive child support for unborn children



A group of Republican lawmakers is backing a pro-life bill that would give mothers the opportunity to receive child support before a baby is born.

The Unborn Child Support Act reflects the reality that life starts at the time of conception, and therefore, pregnant mothers should be able to get child support as they carry their child.

The measure would insert language into the Social Security Act which states that "the start date for such obligations may begin with the first month in which the child was conceived, as determined by a physician (and shall begin with that month if the mother so requests)." The funds could "be retroactively collected or awarded," according to text.

GOP lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are pushing the proposal.

"Life begins at conception, and this bill is a straightforward first step towards updating our federal laws to reflect that fact. We are hopeful that Democrats will join this bicameral effort to provide mothers with child support payments while their child is in the womb," Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana said, according to a press release.

"Caring for the well-being of our children begins long before a baby is born. It begins at the first moment of life – conception – and fathers have obligations, financial and otherwise, during pregnancy. Mothers should be able to access child support payments as soon as she is supporting a child. Our bill makes this possible," Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said.

The lawmakers supporting the measure include Cramer, Johnson, Sens. Steve Daines of Montana, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott of Florida, Roger Marshall of Kansas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey, Jim Banks of Indiana, Doug Lamborn of Colorado, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, John Moolenaar Michigan, Doug LaMalfa of California, Randy Weber of Texas, Garret Graves of Louisiana, Jake Ellzey of Texas, Randy Feenstra of Iowa, and Claudia Tenney of New York.

Tennessee lawmakers pass bill requiring drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill parents: 'Make people think twice'



Lawmakers in Tennessee have passed a bill that would require by law that drunk drivers who kill the parents of minors in car accidents pay child support to the children.

House Bill 1834 was unanimously passed by the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday. In March, the bill unanimously passed in Tennessee's House of Representatives.

The bill is known as "Bentley's Law" or "Ethan, Hailey, and Bentley's Law" – named after children of victims killed by drunk drivers.

The bill would require a drunken driver convicted of killing a parent or caregiver to have to pay restitution for each child of the victim until the minor reaches the age of 18 and has graduated high school.

"Under this bill, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age," states the bill – which has yet to be signed into law.

"This bill requires the court to determine an amount that is reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of the victim's child after considering all relevant factors," the bill says, including "the financial needs and resources of the child" and "the standard of living to which the child is accustomed."

Courts will determine the amount of child support the defendant will need to pay on a case-by-case basis. If the DUI driver is incarcerated and is unable to pay the child support, the defendant will have up to one year after release to begin making child support payments.

If a defendant's child support payments are set to terminate, but the defendant's financial obligation is not paid in full, the payments will continue until they are paid in full.

"A parent is responsible for the education and upbringing of that child and when then that parent removed from the home over something so, in my opinion, foolish where we drink and drive and take the life of an innocent then someone needs to be responsible for the upbringing of those children," Republican State Rep. Mark White told WREG-TV.

The idea for the bill originally came from a Missouri grandmother who lost her son – Cordell Williams, his fiance – Lacey Newton, and their 4-month-old son – Cordell II, in a tragic drunk driving car accident in April 2021. The bill is named after Cecilia Williams' 5-year-old grandson Bentley – who lost both of his parents in the drunk driving crash. The drunk driving accident also orphaned Bentley's 3-year-old sibling named Mason.

"I remember looking at my clock and I said it’s 12:36 a.m., who's knocking at my door like that," Williams told KYTV. "The first thing you're seeing was a state trooper and an officer. And when I think about their words, I remember looking past them trying to look for them. They said they died in a fiery crash, unrecognizable."

"Try explaining that to a child. It’s not easy. Parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, they should never have to explain it to children," Williams explained. "Because someone decided to go and play God and take someone’s life. It’s not fair."

Williams' cousin and Tennessee resident Diane Sutton pitched the idea for the bill to Republican State Rep. Mark Hall – who introduced the bill in the state legislature in February.

Sutton told WZTV, "It's really just a great law, and it should be nationwide."

Bentley's Law was amended to Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law, to include the children of 38-year-old Tennessee officer Nicholas Galinger – who was killed in a 2019 hit-in-run accident by a drunk driver.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving said in a statement, "MADD believes that passing Bentley's Law will make people think twice before getting behind the wheel impaired. If a person makes the choice to drive impaired and kills a parent, the person will encounter another consequence for their deadly decision. To the victim of the impaired drivers, Bentley's Law allows for another avenue of restitution to help ensure justice."

If passed, Tennessee would be the first state to put such a law on its books. Meanwhile, other states are reportedly considering adopting the law.

New Tennessee bill presents bold idea to protect children from financial ruin if a drunk driver kills their parent



A new bill moving through the Tennessee legislature this week presents a bold, new idea to protect young children whose parent or parents are killed by a drunk driver.

What are the details?

House Bill 1834, also known as "Bentley's Law," proposes holding drunk drivers convicted of killing a parent responsible for their actions by requiring them to pay child support for the surviving children until they turn 18 years old and have graduated from high school.

In cases where the defendant is incarcerated and can't pay, the defendant is given up to one year after their release from prison to begin payments, the bill states. And if the child reaches 18 years of age but hasn't been paid in full, the defendant is ordered to continue payments until the child is fully compensated.

Under the law, a sentencing judge would set the payment amounts with respect to the child's financial needs, the resources of the surviving parent or guardian, and the standard of living to which the child is accustomed, among other factors.

On Monday, the bill unanimously passed the state House of Representatives and will now move on to the Senate, WZTV-TV reported.

What's the background?

The idea for the bill originally came from Cecilia Williams, a Missouri grandmother whose son, daughter-in-law, and four-month-old grandson were killed by a drunk driver last spring. Williams named the bill after her 5-year-old grandson, Bentley, who lost both of his parents in the tragic car accident.

When Williams' cousin and Tennessee resident Diane Sutton heard the idea, she decided to bring it to her local lawmaker, state Rep. Mark Hall. Soon after, Hall introduced the bill in the state legislature.

Tennessee would be the first state to put such a law on its books if passed by the Senate and signed by the governor, but other states are reportedly considering adopting the law, as well.

Sutton told WZTV she hopes the law will soon be in place "nationwide," and Hall added that the law "sends a message that drunk driving in the state of Tennessee is no longer tolerated."

Anything else?

Williams celebrated the law's passage in the Tennessee House this week, saying she hopes the law will not only protect children who lose their parents but act as a deterrent for offenders.

"The one thing people value most in this world is money, and when you hit them in the pockets they’re going to change," she said.

Elsewhere, she said of drunk driving offenders, "They will always remember, this is what I did to the family, you know, and it will sink into them. I can't do this again. You know, I'm supporting children that aren't mine."

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