What will be Troy Neel’s biggest claim to fame? His years playing football for Texas A&M? His professional baseball career with the Oakland A’s? Or his title as Texas’s Biggest Deadbeat Dad? A recent news report states that Mr. Neel has racked up approximately $725,000 in un-paid child support – the highest amount in the state’s history.
This begs the question: how did the number get so high? Neel was ordered in his divorce to pay $5,000 per month for the support of his two children. At the time the divorce was finalized, he was out of the country playing professional baseball in Japan. He then purchased a resort on the island of Vanuatu (made famous by the TV series “survivor”) where he resided for 8 years. During all his years away, not only did the regular child support owed begin to pile up, so did the interest.
Neel is presently in an Austin jail awaiting a trial date. He faces up to two years in federal prison in addition to a judgment in the amount of child support owed plus an up to $250,000 fine. Neel has pled not guilty to the non-payment charges.
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