Bobby Brown is being kept behind bars until his people cough up the $19,000 he owes in late child support payments and court fees. As reported yesterday, Brown was arrested at the weekend over his latest failure to pay child support to Kim Ward, the mother of his two teenage children. The singer's legal people told reporters they were trying to get the cash together, but said that Brown's continued failure to meet child support payments were not because of an unwillingness to pay, but because the size of the payments he was expected to make were now beyond his means.
Lawyer Phaedra Parks told reporters: "We're diligently working on getting those funds available from outside sources. 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. He hasn't made an album in quite some years".
Parks had said she had hoped to have the money in place and therefore her client out of jail by the end of yesterday, though it is not clear whether that was in fact achieved.