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CANTON, Mass. - Singer Bobby Brown appeared in family court here Wednesday and was given two days to prove he has the income to fund educational trusts for two of his children.
Judge Paula Carey gave Brown until Friday to produce contracts showing he has enough money coming in to establish the trust funds he'd promised for the two children he had with Stoughton's Kim Ward.
Brown, a Roxbury native, returned to the court where Carey sentenced him last June to 90 days in prison for missing three months' worth of child support payments. That sentence was immediately suspended after Brown made back payments totaling about $15,000, but he still could serve prison time if he defaults on his obligations to the children.
Brown was also jailed for a day in March 2004 after he failed to pay $63,500 he owed Ward. He was released after making the payment.
The singer was initially summoned to Norfolk County Family Court in March after falling behind on his child support payments, according to Patrick McDermott, the court's Register of Probate.
But by Wednesday, he'd caught up on his payments, although he still hadn't established the educational trust funds he'd promised to set up years ago, McDermott said.
Brown told Carey he had money coming in from reality TV and music projects, and Carey gave him two days to produce the contracts. Brown is expected to make four payments totaling $160,000 within the next six months to establish the trusts.
Brown said he didn't know payments on the education funds hadn't started.
``I've been shooting a television show and recording an album, so it's hard,'' he said. ``For me, it's easy to not know that a payment is not paid because other people are supposed to pay them.''
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