New York Post

Judge squirming out of kid-$$ hike

- By JULIA MARSH

A Yonkers judge is trying to twist the law in his favor — to skimp on child support.

Evan Inlaw, who made history as the first black Democrat to be elected to the Yonkers bench, is banking on a legal loophole to help him dodge higher payments for his 16yearold daughter, Win, court papers show.

“I’ve struggled to take care of her. I’ve got to make sure she has lunch money and clothes,’’ Gale Inlaw, the teen’s mom and Evan’s first wife, told The Post.

The judge, 49, also has two kids by a second ex, former Yonkers NAACP President Tanika Inlaw — who says he’s a slacker when it comes to their children, too.

“My daughter has special needs. Grocery bills are $1,000 a month . . . He’s moving on and just living his life like he can leave a trail of people, saying, ‘Oh, well, I’m not with you anymore; I don’t need to pay,’ ” said Tanika, who has a daughter, Summer, 8, and son, William, 11, with the judge.

Both women have been fighting their ex for several years over child support — and took him to court again after he was elected to the bench in January at an annual salary of $150,600.

The judge says in court papers that he now earns at least 15 percent more than he was making as a lawyer, and according to a 2010 law, that would mean he has to pay more to support his kids.

But he says he shouldn’t have to abide by the law in Win’s case, because he divorced her mom 10 years before it was enacted.

Evan currently pays $520 a month, or $6,240 a year, to support the teen.

“It’s humiliatin­g. She did not get a birthday gift or Christmas gift,’’ Gale said.

“Right now there’s two school trips — one is to Costa Rica and the other is to the Galapagos Islands — and she would like to go on those trips.”

The pair are set to appear in court in October, as are Evan and Tanika. Tanika is separately asking for a bump up from the monthly $1,000 she receives for their kids. Her ex has yet to respond in court papers.

The city publicscho­ol teacher said that while her ex has now remarried for a third time, she and their kids are forced to rely on food stamps.

“He pays, but it’s late, I’ll go months without getting money,’’ she said.

The judge’s secretary told a Post reporter Tuesday that he had no comment. His lawyer did not return a phone call.

Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain and Kate Sheehy

He’s just living his lifeli like he can leave

a trail of people, saying, ‘Oh, well, I’m

not with you anymore; I don’t

need to pay.’ ’

— Exwife of Judge Evan Inlaw (left)

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