A North Carolina man has been charged in U.S. District Court in Bangor with failure to pay child support.
Steve J. Matisko Jr., 53, of Raleigh owes more than $58,000 in back child support for his son, now 26, who was born and raised in Caribou, according to the complaint. Matisko is due in federal court in Maine on Oct. 31.
Matisko has lived outside of Maine since a short time after his son was born in Alaska, Texas and North Carolina.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services in 2015 asked its sister agency in the U.S. government to help recover funds paid to Matisko’s son and his mother through federally funded welfare programs, the complaint said.
The U.S. attorney’s office handles the prosecution of cases where child support is in arrears when the parent owing the support does not reside in the same state as the parent who has primary custody of the child or children. Money recovered most often goes to repay the state for assistance paid out in welfare benefits.
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