A Black man in Texas was stunned to learn this week that he has paid more than $10,000 in child support for a 5-year-old girl in Florida, unrela ted to him, for the last three years, likely because his name and birth date are similar to those of the real father.
Rodrick Dwayne Davis, 45, of Dallas, told Atlanta Black Star that he received a letter from the Texas Attorney General’s Office of Child Support this week demanding $1,400 in overdue child support for a child in Florida. He was stumped, as he has no children in Florida and has never lived there.
He does have two daughters in Texas, now 18 and 23, for whom he’s been paying back child support for several years.
When he examined his pay stubs, he realized a third child was added to his garnished wages in January 2023, and that since then, Texas has taken $10,961 from his paychecks for her support…