Whitney Purvis has averted arrest in her ongoing youngster help case after coughing up a hefty fee ordered by a decide … TMZ has realized.

In accordance with courtroom docs, obtained by TMZ, the “16 and Pregnant” alum was getting ready to being arrested after the courtroom discovered she’d fallen greater than $23K behind on youngster help for her youngsters — Weston Jr. and River — with ex Weston Gosa.

The decide ordered Purvis be taken into custody and jailed until she paid a $4K lump sum purge fee to keep away from jail time. Courtroom docs now present she paid the complete quantity … so the decide rescinded the order earlier than she was ever arrested.

Purvis remains to be on the hook transferring ahead as a result of she’s been ordered to proceed paying $353 per 30 days in present youngster help, plus $20 per 30 days towards the arrears, together with extra processing charges.

We broke the story … Purvis was beforehand in police custody after being arrested on a felony involuntary manslaughter cost tied to an alleged deadly overdose. Police claimed she deliberately distributed Tranq, a fentanyl-xylazine combination, which they are saying induced John Mark Harris to die from a poisonous overdose.