Steve Rebeil is the father of an eight year old son. The boy’s mother, Jennifer Young, believes Rebeil has cheated her of child support payments and used her anger as inspiration to start a website to track parents who are failing to pay child support, mostwanteddeadbeats.com. When interviewed about the venture, she has repeatedly called Rebeil a deadbeat and said other disparaging remarks about him. Now Rebeil is taking action by filing a slander and libel lawsuit against Young.
After many hearings, a 2001 court decision ordered Rebeil to pay $8,500 a month in child support and $205,000 in back child support. According to Rebeil, he has been making monthly payments and has paid over $800,000 in child support since 2001. Young disagrees and has hired her attorneys to have the lawsuit dismissed. She claims he has failed to make a number of payments and failed to pay anything between January and July of this year. The motion to dismiss places the burden of proof on Rebeil’s Orange County personal injury attorney.
It seems the case will rest upon proof of Rebeil’s payments to Young, which may not be difficult if the payments were easily traceable by check payments.
To learn more about the issue, read the full article in the OC Register. Image courtesy of Jennifer Young.
