Today everyone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control. Unfettered greed has trashed the global economy. And it is trashing the natural world as well. We are overfishing our oceans, polluting our water with fracking and deepwater drilling, turning to the dirtiest forms of energy on the planet, like the Alberta tar sands. And the atmosphere cannot absorb the amount of carbon we are putting into it, creating dangerous warming. The new normal is serial disasters: economic and ecological.
I would take Klein's sentiments one step further: Too many CEOs simply do not care about our Constitution, the rule of law, and fundamental matters of right and wrong; too many CEOs do not care about their fellow humans. In the case of Ted Rollins, that appears to include his own flesh and blood.
How far was Ted Rollins willing to go in order to avoid paying a reasonable amount of alimony to his ex wife (Sherry Carroll Rollins) and child support for their two daughters? Here's how we spelled it out in a previous post:
Sherry Rollins had sued for divorce in Greenville, South Carolina, where the family had lived, and adultery was one of the primary grounds she cited. A South Carolina judge had issued a temporary order that called for Ted Rollins to pay $3,355 a month in child support, $5,000 a month in alimony, and continue paying the mortgage, taxes, and insurance on the marital home.
When the mortgage went unpaid, Sherry Rollins and her children were forced from their home. Mrs. Rollins fled to Alabama, where her two sons from a previous marriage were living. Contrary to black-letter law, Ted Rollins was allowed to sue Sherry Rollins in Alabama and wound up with a reduction of roughly $2,500 in his monthly child support and $4,500 in his monthly alimony.
What a deal! No wonder this guy's rich.
How did Ted Rollins pull off this little scam? He didn't do it on his own. He has close ties to the powerful, "pro business" Birmingham law firm Bradley Arant. Prominent matrimonial lawyer G. John Durward, of the firm Durward & Cromer, filed the case in Alabama. Someone persuaded Shelby County Circuit Judge D. Al Crowson to unlawfully take a case where jurisdiction already had been established in another state.
See what we mean about enablers?
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