‘Family Matters’ star arrested for failing to pay child support in Michigan

By Kara Berg, MediaNews Group

‘Household Issues’ star Darius McCrary has been arrested within the Oakland County Jail for failing to pay practically $75,000 in again youngster assist.

Oakland County Circuit Court docket Decide Amanda Shelton issued a warrant for McCrary’s arrest in August 2024 over this youngster assist arrears.

McCrary has been repeatedly cited for failure to pay youngster assist, and by Could 2024 he owed practically $100,000 to the mom of his then 16-year-old youngster.

McCrary was additionally arrested in December 2023 for a misdemeanor depend of failure to pay youngster assist in Oakland County, ensuing from failing to pay $52,000 in youngster assist from April 2015 by way of March 2019. He was launched on a GPS tether, however was unable to pay the cable costs and continued to fail to pay youngster assist, Assistant Lawyer Basic Sarah Brenner wrote in a March 2024 movement to dismiss the to revoke McCrary’s bond.

In June 2024, McCrary was charged with three further felony counts of failure to pay youngster assist, for failure to pay youngster assist between August 2019 and December 2021, and between March 2022 and March 2024.

McCrary’s bond was revoked in June 2024 for failing to attend the June 24 listening to, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

McCrary noticed his son solely as soon as between 2016 and 2022, when he supervised parenting time whereas in Michigan for a couple of days in October 2022, based on court docket information. McCrary requested unsupervised time, however his request was denied.

The lawyer for the kid’s mom, Celeste Dunn, wrote in a response to McCrary’s request for private parenting time that McCrary made no try and see his son between 2016, when he refused to take his son again to Michigan after visiting McCrary in California for spring break, and October 2022.

Dunn stated the parenting time was not within the kid’s finest curiosity as a result of the teenager didn’t wish to see his father. McCrary has been nothing however a “supply of disappointment and anxiousness,” Dunn wrote.

McCrary’s lawyer Jermaine Wyrick wrote in an August 2024 movement to put aside his arrest warrant that McCrary has a “sturdy and loving relationship” along with his son, relationship from early childhood when McCrary was his major caregiver.

There have been no hearings or actions within the misdemeanor case since September 2024.

McCrary is finest identified for his position as Eddie Winslow within the sitcom ‘Household Issues’, which ran from 1989 to 1998.