LeCharles Bentley to Have Child Support Re-Evaluated

LeCharles Bentley, former Browns center, is having his child support re-evaluated by the Ninth District Court of Appeals this week. Although the case began in Lorain County Commons Pleas Court in 2008, the Ninth District Court has ruled against him in the case of child support payments for his three children.

The former center, whose career was ended after a serious staph infection debilitated him, had been ordered to pay $44,000 a year in child support payments based on calculations involving his annual income. His lawyers argued that Bentley actually only made $145,035.96 for child support services, meaning that the court had made an error in their calculations.

While the appellate court did not agree with Bentley's legal team that the original court had abused its discretion, it did find the courts calculations questionable when it included certain portions of money as income questionable. One amount, $30,000 per year, would come from a $300,000 annuity from which ten percent would be drawn each year.

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