Tim Jones’s ex-wife is suing the state and county Department of Social Services for negligence.

Taxpayers are already on the hook for more than $600,000 for Jones’s 6-week death penalty trial for killing the couple’s 5 children.

They face as much as $3 million more that Amber Kyzer – formerly Amber Jones – claims against DSS for negligence in the deaths of their children.

That could result from a verdict in her favor of $300,000 to $600,000 for each incident of negligence, one of her attorneys, state Sen. Dick Harpootlian, told the Chronicle.

DSS claims monitoring of Tim Jones and his children are all a continuous incident.

A Lexington County jury earlier this year found Jones guilty and sentenced him to die for the murders.

His legal appeals’ cost at this point is not yet known.

He awaits execution on Death Row for killing his 5 small children in their Red Bank home.

The children Merah, 8; Elias, 7; Nahtahn, 6; Gabriel, 2 and Elaine Abigail, 1, were found in August 2014 wrapped in black trash bags off a logging road in rural Alabama.

Witnesses said Jones physically and mentally abused his children, fed them poorly and kept them filthy.

An administrative law clerk has asked for more time to type up a trial transcript.

Harpootlian said they expect a copy by the end of the year to use in the lawsuit.

Other witnesses will be deposed after the transcript is ready.

Harpootlian will ask the court to decide how many incidents of negligence can be used for the settlement.

DSS caseworkers made numerous visits to Jones’s mobile home where they found excessive trash.

They have said they ordered Jones to stop abusing his children, feed them and clean up the home.

A baby sitter reported Jones beat the children.

A DSS caseworker ordered him to stop but took no action.

Saxe Gotha Elementary School officials called DSS twice to report bruising on the children.

DSS ordered him to stop but left the children in his care.

He and Kyzer were going through a divorce in the middle of these reports, and she moved out.

In their divorce, Jones was awarded custody.

Jones was convicted of beating Nahtahn to death in 2014 and then strangling the other 4 children.