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> According to Blakely, Drummond refused to pay child support at times and also went long stretches without seeing his child. How does one get away with not pa

> According to Blakely, Drummond refused to pay child support at times and also went long stretches without seeing his child. How does one get away with not paying child support and not having wages garnished? I thought the courts were very aggressive in enforcing child support.

Aeolun 7y ago
Probably not if you just neglect to pay every once in a while.
save_ferris 7y ago
I'd imagine being a C-level executive at one of the world's biggest companies had something to do with it. Interesting, he was also charged by the SEC in 2005 for failing to register $80M in employee stock options prior to Google's IPO[0] 0: https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-6.htm https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-6.htm
wolco 7y ago
Refuses to pay at times is different than never paided anything. The legal cost to recoupe one misse payment may not be worth it.
pjc50 7y ago
> I thought the courts were very aggressive in enforcing child support. I imagine Google's top lawyer is rather better at that. Also, I suspect we're not hearing an equal balance of stories about unpaid child support.
- throwaway_law 7y ago
  >I imagine Google's top lawyer is rather better at that. Being a Google lawyer (over even Google's "top lawyer") has little to do with being a good lawyer, rather everything to do with connections and ticking the boxes (Stanford grad and minority). After all the guy failed to register $80M of Google Stock Options with the SEC, thats not some slight or minor oversight or error, but evidence the lawyer was not competent for the position. You see it every day with general counsel at tech companies, Facebook is kind of notorious for FB Shareholder lawsuits against Zuckerburg as a result of poor legal work from their army of Harvard trained lawyers. Search the Director compensation lawsuits and its clear Zuck has the power to do the things he is doing (as he has majority voting rights as shareholder, is chairman of the board, and CEO) but the FB general counsel seems to regularly authorize corporate actions "wearing the wrong hat" (i.e. Zuck authorizes something as shareholder when it should have been as CEO, or as CEO when it should have been Shareholder, etc...), which is about as basic as corporate laws go.
throwaway_law 7y ago
>How does one get away with not paying child support Odds are she never went to court to get court ordered child support, and any support he was paying was simply a result of personal agreement between the two. She could at anytime file for breach of contract (supported either by written agreement of support, or at minimum inferred agreement by showing any texts/email/prior payments to support her claim) and/or petition the courts for an order of child support.

Aeolun 7y ago

Probably not if you just neglect to pay every once in a while.

save_ferris 7y ago

I'd imagine being a C-level executive at one of the world's biggest companies had something to do with it. Interesting, he was also charged by the SEC in 2005 for failing to register $80M in employee stock options prior to Google's IPO[0] 0: https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-6.htm https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-6.htm

wolco 7y ago

Refuses to pay at times is different than never paided anything. The legal cost to recoupe one misse payment may not be worth it.

pjc50 7y ago

> I thought the courts were very aggressive in enforcing child support. I imagine Google's top lawyer is rather better at that. Also, I suspect we're not hearing an equal balance of stories about unpaid child support.

throwaway_law 7y ago
>I imagine Google's top lawyer is rather better at that. Being a Google lawyer (over even Google's "top lawyer") has little to do with being a good lawyer, rather everything to do with connections and ticking the boxes (Stanford grad and minority). After all the guy failed to register $80M of Google Stock Options with the SEC, thats not some slight or minor oversight or error, but evidence the lawyer was not competent for the position. You see it every day with general counsel at tech companies, Facebook is kind of notorious for FB Shareholder lawsuits against Zuckerburg as a result of poor legal work from their army of Harvard trained lawyers. Search the Director compensation lawsuits and its clear Zuck has the power to do the things he is doing (as he has majority voting rights as shareholder, is chairman of the board, and CEO) but the FB general counsel seems to regularly authorize corporate actions "wearing the wrong hat" (i.e. Zuck authorizes something as shareholder when it should have been as CEO, or as CEO when it should have been Shareholder, etc...), which is about as basic as corporate laws go.

throwaway_law 7y ago

>How does one get away with not paying child support Odds are she never went to court to get court ordered child support, and any support he was paying was simply a result of personal agreement between the two. She could at anytime file for breach of contract (supported either by written agreement of support, or at minimum inferred agreement by showing any texts/email/prior payments to support her claim) and/or petition the courts for an order of child support.