I'm not so sure he'll be safe!
hey gang thanks alot for your x-pertise!
Ive been looking online as well for help regarding this issue, but one thing i noticed is that most of the websites offer information about GETTING a passport, and not many offer info on what to do if u already currently HAVE a valid U.S passport or on how to find out if it has been revoked or not.
ezequiel and alterego, should i contact the department of health and human services?
Its wield that my friend doesnt even know if his liscense and/or passport has been revoked. Wouldnt it have been stated in court or at least in the court order?
THANX GUYS/GALS
Thought I recalled reading something in the newspaper recently about something like this. I googled and found this:
Paul Hillier - Deadbeat Dad Nabbed In NYC, Pays Up $90,000 Owed His Kids To Avoid Jail
From: mark <markstenroos@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:01:54 -0700 (PDT)
Authorities grab famous choral director in New York area on Oregon
child-support warrant
Published: Friday, August 13, 2010, 8:14 PM Updated: Friday,
August 13, 2010, 11:15 PM
Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian
A renowned choral master who has performed all over the world was
arrested as soon as he stepped off the plane at Newark International
Airport this week, nabbed on an Oregon warrant for criminal nonpayment
of child support.
Paul Hillier had flown from his home in Denmark with his vocal
ensemble to the United States for a scheduled performance Friday night
at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
Instead of being whisked to a hotel to relax and prepare, however,
Hillier was hauled off to Es*** County Jail in New Jersey Wednesday.
Accused of ducking his responsibility for more than four years,
Hillier suddenly had the approximately $90,000 in back child support
wired overnight to an account in the Multnomah County's Support
Enforcement Division.
"He's been fairly cooperative," said Multnomah County deputy district
attorney Jennifer James, "once we got his attention."
Hillier faced a nationwide arrest warrant, accusing him of four counts
of the felony charge criminal nonsupport for not making court-ordered
payments for his two daughters living in Oregon.
"It's certainly one of the most stringent remedies we will exercise to
seek enforcement of support orders," said Bette Yada, supervising
attorney for the Multnomah County District Attorney's Support
Enforcement Division.
Hillier could not be reached Friday. He did not respond to e-mail
messages.
Hillier, whose devotion to choral music has made his choir a standard
at world music festivals, had not been in the United States for four
years. This created a dilemma for Oregon authorities, because Denmark
does not recognize Oregon's child support enforcement orders, like
other countries do.
So Multnomah County prosecutors kept tabs on Hillier's professional
Web page where they learned of Friday's performance in New York,
calling it a "rare United States visit for him" in a court affidavit.
The 61-year-old conducts one of Scandinavia's leading vocal groups,
Ars Nova Copenhagen,and they were set to take the stage in Lincoln
Center's Alice Tully Hall at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
On August 5, a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Hillier on the
felony charges, and a nationwide warrant was issued for his arrest.
Prosecutors also faxed an affidavit to New Jersey authorities, pushing
to increase Hillier's bail to $1 million once he was detained.
The affidavit said Hillier's past behavior showed a "disregard for
court orders and the financial well-being of his family."
"It was part of the leverage, to get him to pay," said District
Attorney Michael Schrunk. "He was held until he paid up. It's a good
piece of collection work."
Hillier got to the pre-booking process at Es*** County jail, but
avoided being placed in lockup, jail authorities said.
According to court documents, Hillier had been ordered to pay $1,750 a
month in child support, which increased to $2,000 a month as of
January 2005 to his ex-wife, for their daughters, now ages 24 and 19.
The couple divorced in Indiana in February 2002, and the children and
their mother moved to Oregon.
Hillier, from Dorset, England, had been director of the Early Music
Institute at Indiana University. He went on to become chief conductor
of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and his own ensemble
Theatre of Voices between 2001 and 2007, and since 2003, has been
Chief Conductor of Ars Nova Copenhagen, which features Renaissance
choral and contemporary vocal music.
Under Oregon law, child support extends for children who are 18 to 21
years of age if they are attending school. His 19-year-old daughter, a
Wilson High graduate, is attending Portland State University. His 24-
year-old daughter is a Reed College graduate.
In September 2002, Hillier's ex-wife in court papers described Hillier
as "completely absent" from their children's lives and sought to
obtain full custody. As a professional musician, Hillier was traveling
constantly, and not providing his ex-wife updated information on his
itineraries, the court papers said. In 2002, he was serving as a
musical conductor in Estonia, with a girlfriend in Copenhagen,
Denmark, court records said.
According to a court affidavit filed this month, Hillier had written
letters to his ex-wife and daughters, indicating that he would provide
support only if his children asked.
"When they have asked, he has refused to provide payments," the
affidavit says. His ex-wife and daughters declined comment through the
prosecutor's office.
Hillier, the affidavit says, has remarried, and has a younger child in
Denmark.
"Defendant is aware that a portion of his royalties from his music
productions are garnished by the State of Oregon for child support and
he has asked the mother to drop her quest for child support because of
the accounting inconveniences it causes the royalty distribution
company. '"
Multnomah County's child support enforcement division includes three
prosecutors, about 25 clerical staff, and has about 9,000 to 10,000
current child support enforcement cases being worked, Yada said. The
criminal sanction is not often used and only in cases where a parent
has substantial arrears and has the means to pay, Yada said.
In this case, the district attorney's office also faxed a wage
withholding order to Lincoln Center, where Hillier was set to take the
stage.
But once Multnomah County prosecutors received the money Hillier had
wired by Thursday morning, they alerted an attorney for Lincoln Center
that their wage order no longer stood.
And Friday night, Hillier's Ars Nova Copenhagen's show featuring vocal
selections by composers Bach, Legeti and Xenakis in New York City went
on as scheduled.
Perhaps this is an extreme example, but maybe not. It at least shows the power exists to prevent his return. Hope this is helpful.
ratbastard