Mr. Seth Eisenberg

Now Seth Eisenberg, 45, leads a nearly $5 million, taxpayer-funded program to teach South Floridians to maintain happy and healthy marriages.
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Eisenberg, a divorced father of two, is grant project director of the PAIRS Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by his mother that teaches relationship skills.Many people in South Florida know him for his volunteer work with children and the community.
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That's just life," said Eisenberg, of Weston."My job is to help more kids not have to go through the experience I had to, to grow up in a two-parent home where they know what healthy conflict looks like and what love looks like."

Among the challenges Eisenberg has faced in the past decade:

,A 2003 lawsuit filed by a former employer who accused him of fraud, stealing business leads and hacking into company computers.The lawsuit was dropped after the parties reached an undisclosed agreement and a judge barred Eisenberg from accessing company computers again.

,A related 2003 arrest on a charge of unlawful computer access that was dropped after he went through a pretrial program for people accused of a first offense.

,A 2001 lawsuit filed by his parents, who tried to evict him from a home they owned.Eisenberg and his parents reached an undisclosed settlement and say they have put the disagreement behind them.

,His bankruptcy, filed in 2005, when he owed creditors more than $350,000.

Eisenberg said he now makes $90,000 a year administering the grant, which PAIRS received as part of a nationwide pro-marriage initiative promoted by President Bush.
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Interviews with community members and documents contained in court records paint contradicting portraits of Eisenberg.

When he is not working with PAIRS, Eisenberg volunteers, coaching youth sports and, in the past, working with homeless children, he said.

The father of Daniel Wultz, a Weston teen killed in a terrorist bombing while on a trip to Israel, called Eisenberg a "miracle maker" who helped his family cope with their grief.
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Eisenberg also helped them establish a foundation to honor Daniel's memory.
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"Without Seth, we couldn't have done any of this.He's really brought our family together."

As for his legal troubles, Eisenberg has explanations.

Through much of his career, he has worked with PAIRS.But in 2002 he went to sell cars for Rick Case Enterprises.He soon became the manager of its Sawgrass Mills location.The next year, the dealership fired and sued him, alleging, among other things, fraud.

Eisenberg, who studied journalism in college, says Rick Case Enterprises went after him because he was writing about the dealership.He says their settlement forbids him from saying more, but he was never prosecuted.

"Twenty-first century economics are having as powerful an impact on marriage and gender roles as World War II had in launching women's liberation," when Rosie the Riveter changed the image of working women, says Seth Eisenberg, former executive director of Pairs, Weston, Fla., a leading marriage-education program.

"Twenty-first century economics are having as powerful an impact on marriage and gender roles as World War II had in launching women's liberation," when Rosie the Riveter changed the image of working women, says Seth Eisenberg, former executive director of Pairs, Weston, Fla., a leading marriage-education program.