where the interests of the children are paramount, the court should be even more cautious).
Bledsoe has a double burden of proof. He must also show that the trial court abused its discretion by finding that he had not carried his burden of showing forgiveness was proper. Abuse of discretion is claimed for a number of reasons. He claims that the payments were beyond his resources. The court looked at his circumstances, however, and lowered his payments, first temporarily and then permanently. Not even a partial payment was made.
He claims his failure to pay was never willful but forced upon him because his restitution obligations took priority over his child support obligations. His restitution obligation resulted from his own voluntary criminal actions. He admitted that he had not sentOn June 28, 1997, then-heavyweight champion boxer Evander Holyfield met No. 1-ranked Mike Tyson for a rematch of their fight just seven months earlier, a surprising win by Holyfield.

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That upset was nothing compared to the events of the sequel.

Billed as "The Sound and The Fury," all there was by the end of the third round was the sound of cascading boos, furious at the end of a fight that saw Tyson bite his opponent in the ear twice, with one chomp severing a roughly 1-inch piece from Holyfield's right ear.

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Evander Holyfield reacts after he was bit in the right ear by Mike Tyson in the third round of their WBA Heavyweight match Saturday, June 28, 1997, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Tyson said his actions