Love, known for roles in “Friday,” “Elf” and “Couples Retreat,” was arrested in California just over two weeks ago after failing to surrender to police on two contempt of court charges.<\/p>\n
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During the nearly two-hour hearing, attorneys sparred over child support payments as Love appeared in court seated in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n
At the center of the dispute was whether Love is hiding income from Tiffany Lee, the mother of his child.<\/p>\n
Love repeatedly expressed frustration as he defended his record as a father, telling the court, \u201cI\u2019ve always taken care of my daughter.\u201d He added that he recently saw his daughter and gave Lee money when she dropped her off.<\/p>\n
His attorneys argued he is struggling financially, and Love testified that he is living with a friend who pays his bills. When asked about the balance in his bank account, Love said, \u201cRight now, probably $99.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee\u2019s attorneys painted a different picture, arguing Love earns about $20,000 per comedy show and does several shows in a weekend. Meanwhile, Love\u2019s attorney denied that Love has performed recently.<\/p>\n
Lee testified that Love has threatened to stop working altogether to keep her from collecting child support.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not making payments and hasn\u2019t, and he told me he\u2019s going to stop working and canceling shows so I won\u2019t get anything,\u201d Lee told the court. \u201cIt\u2019s not as if he was providing before.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hearing grew even more heated when Love interrupted Lee\u2019s testimony to ask about her citizenship. Lee told the court the comment echoed previous threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe referenced that he was angry and he would have ICE raid my home for continuously taking him to court,\u201d Lee testified.<\/p>\n
After nearly two hours of testimony, the judge ruled the 16 days Love already served was sufficient punishment. The judge suspended the remainder of a 180-day sentence and ordered Love to provide updated financial records to the court.<\/p>\n
Love now has until July 1 to compile an accurate financial affidavit about his income and what he can pay, or he could be sent back to jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Faizon Love will be released from jail after serving 16 days and must provide financial records to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-317079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}