Dave Foley was ordered to pay his ex-wife $17,700 a month in child support. That was five times what he actually earned.
If he set foot in Canada, he would be arrested at the border.
When he asked the judge how he’d feed his daughter from his second marriage, he says the court’s answer was simple: “They can rot in hell.”
In 1997, Foley was starring on NBC’s NewsRadio and making about $1 million a year. That year, he separated from his first wife, Tabatha Southey.
An Ontario judge set his payments at $17,700 a month, or $212,400 a year after taxes, based on his sitcom salary.
Two years later, NBC canceled the show. His income dropped by nearly 80%.
He went back to court to lower the payments. The judge said no. The court ruled he had made $1 million once, so he should keep paying like he still did.
His ex-wife lived in a $2.5 million house on a park in Toronto. Foley rented a small loft in downtown LA.
By 2011, he owed more than $500,000 in back payments. Ontario threatened to pull his passport and issued a warrant for his arrest if he came home.
In the video below, Foley explains the math: “I’m paying about five times my income every month in child support, based on a show that hasn’t been on for 12 years.”
He couldn’t work in Canada again until he landed a new sitcom in 2014 and had his paychecks garnished at the source.
The case for the court: a parent shouldn’t get to slash support just because their career slows down.
The case for Dave: locking a canceled actor into 1990s sitcom money under threat of prison is extortion.
Should child support be tied to what you earn today, or the best year you ever had?
Tommy Robinson was just found guilty of doing EXACTLY what the "victim" journalists did to him
Avoid the United Kingdom accordingly.
It conducts show trials in a way that makes Kim Jong Un green with envy.
This might be the craziest one yet.
They are MORTIFIED when they believe that Trump had s*x with a 9 year old, but refuse to condemn Muhammad when they found out he was the culprit.
As Chief Stewart Philip declares war on British Columbians, he has been leaving his own people to rot and die slowly on the Streets of Vancouver BC while collecting millions in Tax Money
🚨 4 YEARS. 3 MONTHS. STILL NO MEDICAL REVIEW.
I woke up paralyzed on February 22, 2022, following my Moderna COVID vaccine.
I applied to Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program in July 2022.
It’s now October 2026.
I’m living with quadriplegia. I’ve undergone years of neurological testing, MRIs, spinal taps and hospitalizations.
Despite countless follow ups, my claim STILL hasn’t received a medical assessment.
I haven’t been approved. I haven’t been denied. I haven’t even been medically reviewed.
Canada created a program to support people with serious vaccine injuries.
So why am I still waiting more than FOUR YEARS just to have my case examined?
How many more years are people with permanent disabilities supposed to wait?
My name is already on my gravestone. Is that what they are hoping?
@GovCanHealth@markcarney
PLEASE REPOST. Canadians deserve answers.
Convicted woman beater @guyfelicella who has already stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers to promote hard drug use is now sucking up to the conservatives. Guy has a 30 year history of violence against woman, hard drug dealing and many other things
B.C.’s premier-elect is doubling down on the campaign promise of abolishing legislation that’s meant to set up the framework for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. https://t.co/QuP2q4ZHow