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I am writing you to make you aware of an issue. Former NBA player, current USBL assistant coach and aspiring NBA assistant coach, Cliff Levingston has failed to submit timely payments. He is currently 4 months in arrears on his most recent payment terms and owes $100,000 in child support payments. Cliff has also failed to return calls to the Department of Child Support Services, provide them with any of his contact information or provide them with any of his employment information. This case has been forwarded for contempt of court charges.
Cliff informed me that a federal office claims he only owes me $45,000 and is current which is not the case. Cliff owed over $120,000 when he was arrested in 2002, our daughter was not an adult at that time and it does not calculate the continued interest on the balance. Cliff chooses to communicate only with the federal office since he is treated more lenient and I am vilified. He fails to realize the federal case is closed but the full amounts owed are kept with the Department of Child Support who referred the case to the federal unit for prosecution. The Department of Child Support maintains jurisdiction until the entire amount is paid in full.
The federal office is still angered over the fact that I had to report them due to their office’s error in inputting the payment check in wrong and causing the checks to be delayed 45 days.
Cliff is touting around, our daughter Tristan ran off from home and is in contact with him. From the onset Cliff has refused to inform me of her whereabouts when she left my home. He was made aware that I would come home and find Tristan gone without provocation and my only to find a note. However he wanted me to provide Tristan with funds and angered when I turned off her cell phone. In his trying to brand me as a bad mother, he is failing to inform you that our daughter stole from Macys, lied about it for weeks, had me and my associates to back her as she relayed to us a false story about the incident claiming racial profiling. She ran days prior to the truth being revealed. Cliff did not see her stealing as a big issue. While I have a serious problem with her stealing and what has unfolded since. Additionally Cliff promised her a tennis scholarship to his alma mater and a new Lincoln Aviator. I have not heard from her in 6 months. During our conversations, Cliff taunts with ‘she does not want to speak with you or let you know where she is living.’ It fails to upset me and he angers. I don’t believe in lying or stealing no matter who it is…she knows better.
I have estranged members of my family whose sinister acts assisted her and making this more problematic, previous police reporting of their threats and a restraining order was filed. Additionally, I had to relocate to another state. I raised Tristan, provided for her solely and educated her with no assistance from Cliff. It was I who provided those expensive tennis lessons, camps, equipment and etc. at times working two jobs to do so. I have tried to co-parent with Cliff, forgiving and believing him when he said he had changed only to be disappointed in his need to try and besiege my character and cause me pain in an apparent attempt to reason his criminal acts.
While this has no bearing on your office, I thought it best to make you aware of the actual goings on, feeling that these emotions tend to have bearing on how people in general respond.
I am not trying to keep Cliff from employment. What I am asking is that if you should decide to hire him, that a condition of his contract include that he pay the child support owing in full and assure that garnishments are in place. Cliff would like to continue to pollute my life rather than pay the money owed and allow me to move forward and rebuild. I need to obtain the funds owed and place this negativity behind me.
His minor league employers fail to even return the Department of Child Supports calls or honor the wage garnishments provided them.
I apologize for any inconvenience. However Cliff makes this necessary as he attempts to meander through a problematic system and is hell bent on trying to make me pay at any cost. I tried to speak with him regarding similar issues in 1997 when he refused to make support payments. He told me to let the courts handle it. They did. Now he states that he does not want me to contact him and let the courts communicate with him. Once again, he fails to listen or respond. I am hopeful that at one point he gets it, his actions are illegal and I will not allow him to get away with not paying me. It has taken me 10 years thus far.
I am sure Cliff realizes that if he paid me, I would forget his existence. I just want what is owed to me. Raising a child alone, fighting through the legal system and all other travesties associated with this situation limits your income potential, you pay for things for the child neglecting yourself or your future. I did so for 21 years. I simply want what is legally owed to me.
http://archive.sportingnews.com/nba/articles/20030611/477920.html
I would appreciate your understanding, cooperation and any assistance you may provide.
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