Court

Today I went to court for my child suport hearing. My ex-husband has never paid child support since I filed for it in December of 2005.

We met in court, he had a state appointed attorney and I had the DA working with me. He claims that he cannot work due to "past issues" including post traumtic stress, bipolar, anger issues, psoriasis and ingrown toenails (really? who knew).
So we stated our case the fact that he, during my 6 horrible years that I was with him, did indeed have issues and worked at the same time. He didn't work during the entire relationship, I was the sole support, but he was still capable of working. He has drug and alochol issues as well that he went to treament for during our relationship and MY family pd $10,000 for him to go to inpatient treatment which only lasted for 8 months then he went back to using. We paid for him to get his GED and he didn't complete the classes and we supported him during his 'non working' times.
How do I get paid back for supporting a complete asshole (my bad too) for that long? He isn't held in contempt of court for not showing up to a hearing and unless he wins the lottery, gets a legit job, or inherits money (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) my daughter will never see a penny of support from him.
I personally don't want or need his money, I wish that I didn't have to ever deal with him again. He hasn't visited her since 12/10/2007 and the only time since then he has spoken to her was on her birthday( in May) and she didn't even know who he was, she had to ask.

It nice to see our judicial system at it's best. When are deadbeat loser dad's really going to be held accountable!?