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Probation officer: Sylvia Noriega’s case to be modified; court to sign fee modification and consider termination after payment
Summary
Probation staff reported that Sylvia Noriega is not personally in bankruptcy but her father is; the court agreed to sign a modification of fees and set steps toward terminating probation when remaining restitution (~$1,300) is paid.
Probation staff told a Bexar County court that Sylvia Noriega is linked to a family bankruptcy through her elderly father and that her outstanding court-ordered obligations will be addressed by a modification of fees the judge agreed to sign.
Probation told the court the combined assessed fees on Noriega’s file totaled $8,879.75, of which $5,448.75 was restitution to a private creditor. Probation reported Noriega had paid $1,108 in probation fees and $2,454.57 in restitution; the remaining restitution balance was roughly $2,994, and an estimated $1,100 of payments could be applied if a fee modification were signed. Probation asked that the case be terminated once the remaining roughly $1,300 balance due to the creditor was paid.
Noriega told the court she lives with and helps care for her 80-year-old father and that her father—not she—was in bankruptcy. She said household finances were strained because her father receives Social Security and a VA benefit and her own weekly pay is used to make contributions to the household bankruptcy payment.
The judge said she would sign the modification of fees and that probation would follow up. Probation told Noriega it would contact her to arrange payments; Noriega said she could start paying about $100 a week. The court advised that once the lacking balance was paid, the court would terminate probation.
Probation also clarified that some collection of civil debts against a creditor such as Xerox would be handled through the bankruptcy process, which is a civil matter separate from the criminal/probation case. The court and probation discussed how much of Noriega’s outstanding assessed amounts could be cleared through the proposed modification of fees and the bankruptcy proceedings described on the record.
