Day-to-Day Support

The case archive holds a sampling of 180 checks R’ Avraham Ort gave his wife and children, alongside a claim of $342,000 paid in the fourteen months from June 2000 to August 2001. Fifty check scans are cataloged below.

What the cataloged checks show

• Dates: 47 of the cataloged checks are dated January 2005 through November 2007 — not 2000–2001, despite the 2000_ filename prefixes on the original files. They fall outside the claimed June 2000–August 2001 window for the $342,000.
• Issuer and payee: all 47 are computer-printed Smith Barney (Citigroup) checks payable to Manya Ort of Lakewood, NJ, each bearing two authorized signatures.
• Amounts: $1,100 × 15, $1,375 × 27, $3,300 × 2, $4,125 × 2, $6,600 × 1 — totaling $75,075. The larger amounts are exact multiples of the monthly ones ($3,300 = 3 × $1,100; $4,125 = 3 × $1,375; $6,600 = 6 × $1,100), consistent with combined multi-month payments. Payment dates cluster at month-ends and month-starts.
• Memos: every check’s memo field is blank.

The $342,000 figure is the archive’s claim, not something these scans verify — the sampled checks neither cover the claimed period nor sum to the claimed total.

Child support: the timeline

The court-ordered support went through two phases, both documented:

• $25,000 per month, 2001–2003. After the reconciliation failed in August 2001, Mrs. Ort was awarded pendente lite support of $25,000 per month, drawn from the couple’s joint account — which the Salomon Smith Barney family account list shows at $668,512.34 when the case opened ( Schedule A: Salomon Smith Barney family accounts and approximate values ). The November 27, 2001 order (retroactive to July 5, 2001) is cataloged: Judge Daniels support order, November 27, 2001, page 1: $25,000/month unallocated support .
• $11,000 per month, 2003–2016. When the joint account ran dry, the court permitted support to be drawn from the children’s accounts — funds from R’ Avrohom’s family that had been disbursed among the children’s accounts. The original case history describes these accounts as totaling over one million dollars; the documents cataloged here establish about $852,000 in snapshots taken at different times — Schedule A: $653,145.84 across eleven children’s Smith Barney accounts , $182,619.28 in Sarah Ort’s separate emancipated account (2002) , and $16,000 across eight First Union children’s trusts ($2,000 each) — and the accounts may have grown after those snapshots. The court lowered the amount to $11,000 per month. Arbitration Order #16 (October 2006) confirms the $11,000 figure: Arbitration Order #16, page 1: panel and $11,000/month support from children’s accounts . The payments continued until the last child was emancipated in 2016.

The correspondence argues this timeline reframes the “child support” dispute: in both phases the money came from accounts R’ Avrohom himself had established — first the joint account, then the children’s accounts funded with his family’s money. A husband litigating over support payments drawn from his own already-divested assets is a different picture from a husband refusing to support his children.

Highlighted checks

Smith Barney check — $35,097.00 (December 19, 2005)

Payable to Monya Ort, drawn on Smith Barney/Citigroup, New York. Smith Barney check for $35,097.00 to Monya Ort — original scan

Citigroup check — $1,100.00 (September 29, 2006)

Payable to Manya Ort, 1015 Forest Ave, Lakewood NJ — the Lakewood house at the center of the property dispute. Citigroup/Smith Barney check for $1,100.00 to Manya Ort — original scan

Check #1057 — $139,258.00 (February 16, 2010)

From the Philip Ort Real Estate Account to Manya Ort, with a handwritten note accepting it as payment in full of outstanding child-related monies — conditionally (“if that’s not acceptable, don’t deposit this check”). Told in full on its own page .

Full check archive

Scan	Evidence	Date	Category	Amount	Quality
	Check #03131-19239 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-03	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19232 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-03	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19237 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-03	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19235 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-03	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19234 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-03	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19240 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-06	checks	$1,100	usable
	Check #03131-19236 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Jan 2005	2005-01-06	checks	$1,100	usable
	Smith Barney check for $35,097.00 to Monya Ort One of a series of support-payment checks in the day-to-day archive. The file's upload-batch prefix ('2000_') is not the check date; the date is read from the check itself.	2005-12-19	checks	$35,097.00	good
	Check #03131-34763 to Monya Ort, $3,300, Mar 2006	2006-03-31	checks	$3,300	usable
	Check #03131-34762 to Monya Ort, $6,600, Mar 2006	2006-03-31	checks	$6,600	usable
	Check #0313-04293 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Aug 2006	2006-08-31	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-04295 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Aug 2006	2006-08-31	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-04296 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Aug 2006	2006-08-31	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-04292 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Aug 2006	2006-08-31	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-04297 to Manya Ort, $3,300, Aug 2006	2006-08-31	checks	$3,300	good
	Citigroup/Smith Barney check for $1,100.00 to Manya Ort Filed under day-to-day support. Address shown matches the Lakewood house at the center of the property dispute.	2006-09-29	checks	$1,100.00	usable
	Check #0313-05328 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Sep 2006	2006-09-29	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-05329 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Sep 2006	2006-09-29	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-05326 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Sep 2006	2006-09-29	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-05327 to Manya Ort, $1,100, Sep 2006	2006-09-29	checks	$1,100	good
	Check #0313-10710 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-10711 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-10712 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-10713 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-10709 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-10796 to Manya Ort, $4,125, Feb 2007	2007-02-05	checks	$4,125	good
	Check #0313-11512 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-28	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-11511 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-28	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-11509 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-28	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-11510 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-28	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-11508 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Feb 2007	2007-02-28	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-12464 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Mar 2007	2007-03-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-12468 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Mar 2007	2007-03-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-12466 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Mar 2007	2007-03-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-12467 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Mar 2007	2007-03-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-12465 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Mar 2007	2007-03-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-13923 to Manya Ort, $1,375, May 2007	2007-05-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-13920 to Manya Ort, $1,375, May 2007	2007-05-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-13924 to Manya Ort, $1,375, May 2007	2007-05-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-13922 to Manya Ort, $1,375, May 2007	2007-05-01	checks	$1,375	usable
	Check #0313-13921 to Manya Ort, $1,375, May 2007	2007-05-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-15877 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Jun 2007	2007-06-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-15879 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Jun 2007	2007-06-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-15880 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Jun 2007	2007-06-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-15878 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Jun 2007	2007-06-29	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #5790-25314 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Aug 2007	2007-08-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-20139 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Nov 2007	2007-11-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-20141 to Manya Ort, $1,375, Nov 2007	2007-11-01	checks	$1,375	good
	Check #0313-20143 to Manya Ort, $4,125, Nov 2007	2007-11-01	checks	$4,125	good
	Check #1057 for $139,258.00 to Manya Ort This was presented as proof of payment in full of claims to date. The handwritten note is a conditional acceptance ('if that's not acceptable, don't deposit'), so the legal effect is a matter for the underlying dispute, not something this scan alone settles.	2010-02-16	checks	$139,258.00	usable

These checks sit inside the Financial Overview under court-ordered child support and voluntary transfers.