Please stop the unfair punishment of good fathers. We need child support reform now!
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Jan 26th, 2017Someone from Grottoes, VA writes:
I agree with all this its hard out here for fathers to live without fear of losing there drivers license an not being able to go to work or bring put in jail the laws suck an need to be changed the mother sets home and collects a check an spends it on god knows what i do everything for my child because i no the mother isnt.. -
Jan 26th, 2017Someone from Annville, PA signed.
Jan 25th, 2017Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
If a mother can't provide a place to stay, then she should not have custody. I have a place to stay then my child has a place to stay and the same should be for the mother of the child. I will have food to eat, so my child will have food to eat and the same should go for the mother. No one should have to pay child support for the time they have the child. Child support should not be raise because the father received a raise. I know there are fathers that will not take care of their child, but there are those of us that will but should still have a a chance to maintain a good living. Child support should not be allowed for rent and utilities. If the mother has custody and can't afford it then she doesn't deserve to have custody. It didn't take child support to make the child so it shouldn't take child support to raise the child. mother's should have to provide receipts that show they literally spent that much on the child.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Terrell H. from Hampton, GA writes:
I agree 1,000,000 Percent because I'm facing child support and I've been taking care of my son since birth and I feel like his mom did it because we separated and I found someone else. But I never once put anyone before my son. I lost my home and now my credit score went down because of back child support and I pray that D. Trump can change it I can't even pay rent because of the amount I have to pay. And it's crazy because my son mom lives with her grandmother and mother she so t pay rent and her car is paid for but me on the other hand I'm struggling living paycheck to paycheck because of this. So if anyone can hear me out there please help me My name is Terrell Harden I recently moved to Georgia after I lost my place in Fort Lauderdale Florida im 26 years old and I need help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Charles M. from Waco, TX signed.
Jan 25th, 2017Someone from Stone Mountain, GA writes:
I agree! I am currently dealing with the same issues that non custodial Father's are going through. The system need a a major reform.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
Child support shouldn't even exist relationships are 50/50. I'm a mother of two children impregnated on purpose by a man that abused me. The court didn't support my case he got custody, child support and no punishment for the abuse I suffered. Now he is deemed unfit for his alcoholism but CPS didn't want me to have them so they throw in neglect. It was false allegations but I was afraid they wouldn't hear me out and falsely accuse me and have a felony on my record making it hard for me to pay child support so i helped my ex's mother get custody. Biggest mistake on my part she doesn't like me and has successfully kept me away from my Children for two years going on three now. Unfortunately I have depression over it I talk to God every night. Even have wished God would have kept that nurse at the hospital to busy to see my blood pressure drop and not be revived. I wanted the abuse to stop and I caused get me and the kids out. Sorry if this is morbid but there isn't a day that is good when you wake up everyday wishing you could have been the mom they need and not the absent provider.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Acworth, GA writes:
The system is an absolute joke, license and passport suspensions, no accountability to show that child support is in fact going to the child, and the only one I know of where you can go to JAIL for a debt. Reform is a must for mothers and fathers who pay child support and owe arrears. Children need both of their parents in their lives, always.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Joshua B. from Tupelo, MS writes:
I am a father of a beautiful little girl and soon to be of another beautiful baby girl. I am paying way more out of pocket for my older daughter then the money I am saving for my new born. I know for a fact that what I pay for my older one is not even being used on her. If they must have money then make sure they keep a job and have to show proof of what they use it on. I mean in my eyes if you need help supporting then give the rights to the other parent! I know I can fully support my daughters on my own!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Deangelo C. from Forest Park, GA writes:
I must say it was hard tryingbto get a job when child support suppends your license, passports, etc and among that living in a area where there is no bus. One job would not hire me because child support ruin my credit too. With all the check stacked against me I was at a time of commiting sucide.. When I saw my child it was not good it was like I being punished for giving him life...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Des Moines, IA writes:
Most child support cases are from a vindictive mother trying to get at her baby father or a broke females way of getting some kind of free money! Child support should be the father being court ordered to buy the kid what they need not giving the mother the money!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Bronx, NY writes:
Child support is for the child, not the parent. The obviuos bias against even good men, and the ease with which some women manipulate the system as a personal tool of vengeance, is immoral and detrimental to society's well being.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Miami, FL writes:
Some mothers just put the fathers on child support just because the relationship between the two of them didn't work. Not because they need the support!!!! Children need two parents in there life. Especially a little boy. IT TAKES A MAN TO TEACH A MAN HOW TO BE A MAN!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Rural Hall, NC writes:
My fiancé paying child support and his kids live with his mother. His mother just text him the other day talking about how both parents are absent from the kids life.he told his mother you got me paying child support and you raising my kids. He don't mind paying child support but like he told his mother his hard earn money should be going to her and not their sorry mom...when he went in front of the judge he tried to explain this to the judge and they pretty much didn't want to hear nothing he had to say...the system is so backwards. Please reform, it's not fairREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Mobile, AL writes:
This is really an assault a non custodial parents please reform the systemREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017christian j. from Durham, NC writes:
It's really not fair. I am subliminally bullied by this woman and the bad part is she is a great manipulator. Smh.... I'm for child support reform...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Clarence M. from Saint Louis, MO writes:
Missouri child support laws are BS. I never knew of my kid and after he was almost one I found out about him. I requested a DNA test and they put me on child support. I was unemployed at the time due to an accident and now I'm behind on child support. The judge and her attorney told me that I could find another $18 hr job like I had before. My body is different I damaged my spine so I can't work as much as I was before. They have no remorse. They did a full on investigation about my income but only asked her directly about hers. She lied about her paying high daycare fees and also about how much she was making at her job. The need to do full investigations on both parties before they issue a child support order. I make $10 she makes almost 20 and I pay $455 a month in child supportREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Robert M. from San Antonio, TX writes:
Make America great again not slaves Donald trumpREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Johnstown, OH writes:
What about the baby mom's that have 3 kids by different guys?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Sioux Falls, SD writes:
I'm currently dealing with kids mother who will not allow me to have my kids during the summer months. I always pay my child support and have a great history with my kids and want them more. I currently get them every other weekend. I'm a great father to my kids and I have no extra money to fight her in the courtroom. The current system is beyond terrible and I'm hoping something changes soon.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Miami Gardens, FL writes:
Speaking as a great father hindered by the child support system which is definitely unfair I totally agree with all that is said on the steps to fix the systemREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Asheville, NC writes:
I agree BUT you should include MOTHERS paying child support to fathers in your verbiage. I am one of them. Don't forget us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017chris b. from Toledo, OH writes:
please reform this is bias and not fair to the child who has a loving father and a deadbeat mother who just uses children as a source of income . It has cost me over 2,000 at this point to see my son every other weekend and 2 hrs midweek. and i would guess im looking at another 2-4 grand in legal fees just to establish my equal rights as a father . No gurantee on equal parenting rights even after all the $ forked out. Its a broken system and needs to be re writtenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Grantville, GA signed.
Jan 25th, 2017Chas B. from Saint Louis, MO writes:
I wish this would happen a lot would changeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Kosciusko, MS writes:
I was paying but my driver's license get suspension because I owed 300.00 dollars in back I became disable and now I'm hiddening out because I can pay my kids love me and some things a dollar can't by it hard to be a man when someone else is controlling what you can do like taking your man hood and life is self my kids is mind not the state unfair to my kids I have lost everything but my kids sick by myREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 25th, 2017Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
Yes. Iam a good dad. Also been convicted of drug felonies years ago. Its hard to get a job. The mother of the child get 67 dollars every week. Mind I have others children and unemployed. She stole my s.s # to even go through with this support order to begin with. Also left the city with saying. Returning unstable. Judge didn't want to hear me out or wanted to lower the order. I haven't seen this child but once. I father the others. Am bother by this because I do have other kids that needs me. I don't what to do. I was homeless and she stole ss#REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Victor S. from Wichita Falls, TX writes:
Please reform. This is doing more harm than good to kids.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Chrystopher E. from Springfield, MA signed.
Jan 24th, 2017Someone from Berwyn, IL writes:
I have paid my child support every time, I actually over pay but ex hire the health care services and now they want to take over 3 thousand in addition to what I pay according to court.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Eduardo R. from Bakersfield, CA writes:
I currently pay 914.00 every two weeks to my ex wife. My ex wife's sister . Her mother and her other sister because she can't take care of them each of them have one kid. If she can't take care of them I should be able to have them. I asked child support personnel why is it that they don't review how much money the sisters and there husband make all they told me was there doing me a favor by taking care of them. I can't even file taxes because there claiming them so I'm stuck not only paying way too much but I'm getting screwed by irs for making 60,000 plus a year and not having dependents. I love my kids and it's not fair for me to struggle harder not seeing them but paying all this money.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Detroit, MI writes:
I am a great father to my kids that i dont get to see because of the child support Laws sometimes they take more than half of my check every week iPay it's not fair to me my kids nobody is happy but maybe the mother.. who makes more money than me.. reform child support or just close it out altogether it takes two people to make a baby.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Pharr, TX writes:
My husband is on child support for his son.I am a second wife. The financial burden has been so great my husband fell behind and lost his drivers license. I have to work double to take care of our family that includes a son of our own. All the while his ex put him on child support to get government assistance. I work and have my son on private insurance and this woman has never worked a day in her life. Left my husband for another man and took their son. And recently did it to her current husband. She has 3 kids by 3 different men. How is this fair?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Fargo, ND writes:
It needs to be reevaluiated! My husband's ex wife lives in expensive housing and drives an expensive car when we are struggling to survive...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
Child Support System Declared Unconstitutional Minnesota Supreme Court upholds ruling In 1975, Congress passed a law which included a last minute amendment to create the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). When signing the bill, then President Ford commented that it took the federal government too far into domestic relations and promised to propose legislation to correct the problem. Over the decade that followed, it became clear that OCSE intended to grow in size and power to control all aspects of child support law, seizing that power from the state courts. The size of the OCSE grew, this decade acquiring a staff in excess of 50,000 and costing taxpayers some $3 billion annually. Child support laws were modified, so that simple mathematical formulae are used to make award decisions. This new simplicity is required due to the low level of education of workers who are assigned as "judges" in child support cases. Extreme consequences defined by new federal laws, often carried out automatically and without trial, give the child support enforcement agency power over tens of millions of individuals that surpasses anything previously seen in the United States. After almost 25 years since its start, judges in Minnesota finally felt that they had seen enough. In June of last year, the Court of Appeals decided that the administrative branch of government had exceeded its constitutional powers. "The administrative child support process governed by Minn. Stat. 518.5511 (1996) is unconstitutional because it violates the separation of powers required by Minn. Const. art. III, 1." (STATE OF MINNESOTA IN COURT OF APPEALS C7-97-926 C8-97-1132 C7-97-1512 C8-98-33, Filed June 12, 1998; http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/ctappub/9806/c797926.htm) The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the decision in January of this year. "The administrative child support process created by Minn. Stat. 518.5511 (1996) violates the separation of powers doctrine by infringing on the district court's original jurisdiction, by creating a tribunal which is not inferior to the district court, and by permitting child support officers to practice law. Therefore, the statute is unconstitutional." (STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT C7-97-926 C8-97-1132 C9-98-33 C7-97-1512, Filed: January 28, 1999, Office of Appellate Courts; http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/supct/9901/c797926.htm)REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017jose u. from San Antonio, TX writes:
Child Support System Declared Unconstitutional Minnesota Supreme Court upholds ruling In 1975, Congress passed a law which included a last minute amendment to create the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). When signing the bill, then President Ford commented that it took the federal government too far into domestic relations and promised to propose legislation to correct the problem. Over the decade that followed, it became clear that OCSE intended to grow in size and power to control all aspects of child support law, seizing that power from the state courts. The size of the OCSE grew, this decade acquiring a staff in excess of 50,000 and costing taxpayers some $3 billion annually. Child support laws were modified, so that simple mathematical formulae are used to make award decisions. This new simplicity is required due to the low level of education of workers who are assigned as "judges" in child support cases. Extreme consequences defined by new federal laws, often carried out automatically and without trial, give the child support enforcement agency power over tens of millions of individuals that surpasses anything previously seen in the United States. After almost 25 years since its start, judges in Minnesota finally felt that they had seen enough. In June of last year, the Court of Appeals decided that the administrative branch of government had exceeded its constitutional powers. "The administrative child support process governed by Minn. Stat. 518.5511 (1996) is unconstitutional because it violates the separation of powers required by Minn. Const. art. III, 1." (STATE OF MINNESOTA IN COURT OF APPEALS C7-97-926 C8-97-1132 C7-97-1512 C8-98-33, Filed June 12, 1998; http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/ctappub/9806/c797926.htm) The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the decision in January of this year. "The administrative child support process created by Minn. Stat. 518.5511 (1996) violates the separation of powers doctrine by infringing on the district court's original jurisdiction, by creating a tribunal which is not inferior to the district court, and by permitting child support officers to practice law. Therefore, the statute is unconstitutional." (STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT C7-97-926 C8-97-1132 C9-98-33 C7-97-1512, Filed: January 28, 1999, Office of Appellate Courts; http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/supct/9901/c797926.htm)REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Jacksonville, FL writes:
America will be great again if we make that change Must children live their life in prison because of the family court crime Taking child away from father We need a respectful constitution A fair one 50/50 obligation is fair and clearREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 23rd, 2017Nina L. from Wexford, PA writes:
I am a woman and completely agree with this. It is completely unfair that good fathers are only awarded partial custody and have to pay astronomical amounts of money to someone who barely works. Other factors should apply in considering the amount needed for the child/children such as the above stated.REPORT COMMENTS
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