Bobby Brown Freed From Jail After Paying Child Support

Michigan Department of Human Services, Mar 13, 2007

CANTON, Mass. — Bobby Brown paid $19,000 in late child support and court fees and was
freed after spending three nights in the Norfolk County jail.
Brown, who was released Wednesday night, was scheduled to appear Thursday in Norfolk
Probate and Family Court, a familiar place for the 38-year-old singer, who has a long history
of failing to pay support on time.

A judge had ordered Brown held in the county jail in Dedham until he made the payments
after he was arrested while watching his daughter’s cheerleading competition at Attleboro
High School.

Phaedra Parks, an attorney in Atlanta where Brown lives, said the singer has been struggling
to meet monthly payments to Kim Ward, of Stoughton, the mother of two of his teenage
children. Brown and Whitney Houston, who have a daughter, are divorcing after 14 years of
marriage.

“Although this agreement was put in place when he was Bobby Brown the star, this
agreement is being enforced when he is not always able to find work,” Parks told The
Associated Press. “He hasn’t made an album in quite some years.”

Brown, a Boston native best known for a solo hit “Don’t Be Cruel,” has a history of legal
troubles. In June 2004, he was sentenced to 90 days in prison for missing three months of
payments. That sentence was immediately suspended after Brown paid about $15,000.

Last March, Brown was nabbed for minor motor vehicle violations dating back 14 years when
he arrived to watch his daughter at a cheering competition at Bartlett
High School. Brown was cooperative and allowed to drive to the police station after the
competition, police said.

In October, Brown paid $11,000 in delinquent child support after being threatened with arrest
if he stepped back into Massachusetts. He owed more than two months’ worth of payments to
Ward.