Ex-NFL player wants break on child support
Travis Henry has nine children by nine different women
By TY TAGAMI

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Former professional football player Travis Henry, who fathered nine children by nine women, returned to DeKalb County Superior Court on Wednesday to try to reduce child support payments for one son.

Henry wants to modify an order to pay $3,000 a month to the boy’s mother, Jameshia Beacham. His lawyer said the amount should be reduced now that Henry is unemployed — and likely out of the National Football League for good.

• DeKalb County news Atlanta attorney Randall M. Kessler said Henry was released by the Denver Broncos because of his age — he’s 30 — and because of an injury.

“He’s got child support obligations across the country, and he’s got zero income,” Kessler told Judge Clarence Seeliger.

Henry also has other expenses. He was arrested last month in an alleged cocaine deal, and was released after posting a $400,000 bond.

Seeliger set the child support payments last year, when Henry was working as a running back. The judge also ordered Henry to establish a $250,000 trust fund by last spring.

The judge’s order noted that Henry had squandered money, spending $100,000 for a car and $146,000 for jewelry, and said the fund was required as backup should Henry fail to make payments.

Henry appealed that order, and the Georgia Court of Appeals recently agreed to hear the case.

Robert Wellon, the lawyer for the mother, argued against reducing the monthly payments. He asked for documentation about how much Henry has spent from a $3 million payment the player received from the Broncos this year.

He also asked the judge for time to determine whether Henry’s dismissal from the Broncos was involuntary or whether he precipitated it by his own actions.

Wellon said that if Henry was dismissed due to his own actions, the child support payments should not be reduced. “Voluntariness is never a ground for modification,” he said.

In June, when the Broncos dumped Henry, coach Mike Shanahan was quoted by the Rocky Mountain News as saying that Henry was “too inconsistent as a person.”

“We have certain expectations about the way we do things,” Shanahan said at the time. “He didn’t meet those.”

Seeliger agreed to Wellon’s request to seek more information. The next hearing has not been scheduled.

After the hearing, Henry talked amiably with Beacham in the hallway outside the courtroom. Both declined to comment. Henry’s lawyer said Henry and Beacham agreed that he could visit his son at school that afternoon.

What a f@cking loser.

There was a story earlier this year about the former Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks player Jason Caffey going to jail for failing to pay child support to his six different baby mamas. His problem was that he had been out of the NBA for about three seasons prior to being sent to jail and he had also filed for bankruptcy.

Now I don't condone their apparent recklessness with their finances nor their philandering ways with women while they are active players in the NFL, NBA, or baseball, but these guys need to be more aware of how they conduct themselves in public before they end up like Travis Henry, Jason Caffey, or Pacman Jones. One can argue that they were taken advantage of because they grew up poor and suddenly came into great wealth at an early age and didn't know how to handle the sudden wealth and fame, but both the NFL and NBA have extensive orientation sessions for all rookies that deal with exactly this issue. They talk about handling finances, and they specifically talk about golddigging women who come up to athletes as a bunch of groupies and how they should be avoided.

Instead of asking for a break on his child support this dumb ass shoulda "broke" open a box of condoms.

Fuckin retard, female don't get a break so man up.....bitch

I hate to use a Michael Jackson reference but "If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah) then don't have a baby"

PurpleRighteous1 said:

WTF.....these women are trapping you?????

mdiver said:

You know what I mean. That was supposed to be in quotes

This isn't going to end well for anyone.

PurpleRighteous1 said:

no...i dont

mdiver said:

It's based on the saying that goes "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" which means if you let someone take advantage of you more than once or if you fall for the same B.S. from someone else then you only have yourself to blame. And this guy is a MAJOR idiot for letting all (or most) of these women "accidentally" get pregnant by him. More than likely they just wanted that monthly check for themselves.

PurpleRighteous1 said:

Nice judgement

This is only slightly related to the thread at hand, but the Chicago Tribune did a "Where Are They Now" follow-up story on the two then-teens who were documented in the critically acclaimed 1994 documentary film Hoop Dreams.

http://www.chicagotribune...ory?page=1

For those who don't know or don't remember, Hoop Dreams chronicled the lives of two kids who grew up on the west side of Chicago in the late 1980's with dreams of making it to the NBA. Their lives were followed from 8th grade to college, as they showed their triumphs and setbacks in pursuit of becoming NBA basketball players. It was considered to be one of the greatest documentary films of all time and until Michael Moore released Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, it was the highest grossing documentary in box office history.

At any rate, they're still friends, but their lives have taken different paths since the movie came out. One of the kids portrayed in the movie has since graduated college, married, and become a youth pastor while the other has five kids from different baby mamas.

728huey said:

I saw the follow up movie, that shit was sad.

I don't feel sorry for the dumb ass. Shoulda kept his dick in his pants and the coke out of his nose.

I say pay up motherfucka!!