re: Collecting child support: Hire lawyer to set up or go with La. Social Services?

It was off and on. I was always out of the country, so it was more or less a thing of convenience. I would come home, we would do whatever we would do, then I would leave. I never meant it to be anything serious. I let her stay at my home because I was never there. She took advantage of the situation, as did I. I flew her out one weekend before taking off, and we made a baby...

The rest is a short marriage, and a long court fight, filled with more grim details than I care to rehash.

tl;dr I made bad choices, made a baby, did everything I could to be decent, eventually got custody.