The Child Support Family Fairness Act
YOU CAN NOT BUY LIQUOR WITH A FOOD STAMP CARD SO WHY CAN YOU BUY IT WITH A CHILD SUPPORT CARD??!?
Something definitely has to change!
There are currently no checks a and balances in the current child support system. With a few exceptions it is a system of punishing man and rewarding men. If a man has ten children and can not afford child support he is placed in jail numerous times while if a woman has ten children she is awarded subsidized housing, free food, and child support with no repercussions. There are cities and counties where the most wanted criminal's only crime is having children.
Also increasingly we are seeing judges awarding insane child support amounts which should not be allowable by law unless the couple were married. Even then anything above the proposed child support cap will have to be addressed under spousal support or alimony.
Just because someone has wealth shouldn't mean they owe it all to a woman simply because she becomes pregnant or vice versa. Unless they are or were married they are responsible for the child only. Furthermore if one parent is wealthy and can better afford to care for the child courts should consider awarding the wealthy parent custody instead of making outrageous child support orders.
According to CNN it costs $241,080 to raise a child over 18 years in a comfortable middle class family. I feel that all children should be able to go to college and so I will add in the full cost of medical school to be a doctor which is around $166,750. These two number at together is what both parents would pay and the total is $407,830. Half of this total $203,915 should be the maximum amount allowable by child support in any case over the course of 18yrs. $203,915 divided by 18 is $11,329 annually and that gives us a maximum monthly allowable of $945.00. I will then round that up to make it a maximum monthly allowable of $950.00 per month. This should more then cover half of any child's expense.
There are also too many cases where "child support" is NOT being used on the child(ren). As the opening statement says "you cannot buy liquor and alcoholic beverages with a food stamp card but it is perfectly fine right now for someone to walk into a store and buy liquor with a child support card. Purchases like this and many others have absolutely nothing to do with the child and should be outlawed. There are too many cases where the child support money is being misused on everything from night clubs to alcohol and even illegal drugs but there is nothing being done about it.
If the child becomes 18yrs old and is NOT in college AND the absent parent still owes payments for back child support only then should the parent receiving support be allowed to use the funds for personal gain at which time a new unlocked child support card should be issued.
See the full proposal here -> http://fairchildsupport.blogspot.com/p/the-child-support-family-fairness-act.html
There are currently no checks a and balances in the current child support system. With a few exceptions it is a system of punishing man and rewarding men. If a man has ten children and can not afford child support he is placed in jail numerous times while if a woman has ten children she is awarded subsidized housing, free food, and child support with no repercussions. There are cities and counties where the most wanted criminal's only crime is having children.
Also increasingly we are seeing judges awarding insane child support amounts which should not be allowable by law unless the couple were married. Even then anything above the proposed child support cap will have to be addressed under spousal support or alimony.
Just because someone has wealth shouldn't mean they owe it all to a woman simply because she becomes pregnant or vice versa. Unless they are or were married they are responsible for the child only. Furthermore if one parent is wealthy and can better afford to care for the child courts should consider awarding the wealthy parent custody instead of making outrageous child support orders.
According to CNN it costs $241,080 to raise a child over 18 years in a comfortable middle class family. I feel that all children should be able to go to college and so I will add in the full cost of medical school to be a doctor which is around $166,750. These two number at together is what both parents would pay and the total is $407,830. Half of this total $203,915 should be the maximum amount allowable by child support in any case over the course of 18yrs. $203,915 divided by 18 is $11,329 annually and that gives us a maximum monthly allowable of $945.00. I will then round that up to make it a maximum monthly allowable of $950.00 per month. This should more then cover half of any child's expense.
There are also too many cases where "child support" is NOT being used on the child(ren). As the opening statement says "you cannot buy liquor and alcoholic beverages with a food stamp card but it is perfectly fine right now for someone to walk into a store and buy liquor with a child support card. Purchases like this and many others have absolutely nothing to do with the child and should be outlawed. There are too many cases where the child support money is being misused on everything from night clubs to alcohol and even illegal drugs but there is nothing being done about it.
If the child becomes 18yrs old and is NOT in college AND the absent parent still owes payments for back child support only then should the parent receiving support be allowed to use the funds for personal gain at which time a new unlocked child support card should be issued.
See the full proposal here -> http://fairchildsupport.blogspot.com/p/the-child-support-family-fairness-act.html
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