Unfair child support laws
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Jun 4th, 2013Someone from Folsom, CA signed.
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Jun 3rd, 2013Someone from Downey, CA writes:
Its not fair when the women just wants extra money she doesn't need and it isn't even for the child.Jun 3rd, 2013Someone from Harvest, AL signed.
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Jun 3rd, 2013Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
I am a commissioned employee. let me start off by saying this. I have 8 children by five different mothers and I do have arrears that I owe. I started having children young and have made many mistakes and did not pay my child support for a very long time. for the last 9-10 years I have paid consistently and my support is over 1000.00 per month. now I am a 100% commissioned employee and the state of ky feels that they can take my monthly support and then take the rest(100%) of my income for child support. I feel this is totally unfair as I am a commissioned employee and my earnings are protected up to 65% I thought. I really need help as I have not received my check in two months and they keep telling me they are right and I do not have the money to go to court as it cost to just get your case on the docketREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2013Someone from Beverly Hills, CA writes:
To any fathers who are being abused by this system, please join us at goodfathers.org and lets get things going at the local level too!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2013Someone from Beverly Hills, CA writes:
To any fathers who are being abused by this system, please join us at goodfather.org and lets get things going at the local level too!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2013Someone from Colorado Springs, CO writes:
Paying Child Support is the Duty of the Absent Parent However; The Amount of money that the Child Support Agencies demand will drive an honest working citizen into poverty up to and including homelessness.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 31st, 2013Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
It cut off this is the continuation... neglection the court still favors the custodial parent? Yet, we as the biological father don?t have a say so when it comes to our child(ren)? Yes, I fought for joint custody, but whenever I?d want to do something different to my son like a simple haircut because she can?t even cut his hair correctly, I have to ask permission to do so. FREAKING FOOLISH! It?s very irritating how the system is so childish on the way we can treat and see our child(ren). They don?t have any right to control us on how much a child(ren) costs and when to see them. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT EVEN WITHOUT THEIR INTERVENTION! She is living at her parent?s house rent and bills free. As for me, I have my college loans, rent, bills, groceries, and to pay off and try to make ends meet. I can barely buy under wear and socks for myself, but I would rather spend what I have left for my son with clean fitted clothes, toys, food, and a roof over his head. Yes, I can book another job but what good does it do? This will only enforce the system to garnish more money from us and give it to the unjust parent. But most importantly it will take away our quality time with our child(ren). Overall, it?s been ongoing for many decades that the system has been biased against the non-custodial and favoring the uncaring custodial parent. Relationships sometimes don?t work and it is what it is, but there needs to be a change on the system to the point where it should be adjusted as a 50/50 leverage for both parents and not just putting the burden on just one parent. We, as human beings need to live a healthy decent life to support ourselves and our child(ren) without being forced to pay monetary fund?s just to have access to ?our? child(ren). Enough with the crookedness more on the correct Justice, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness! We lived together before and after he was born. Yet, I was the one who clothed, fed, paid both our bills, entertainment, and provided a roof our heads. At that time, I was in process of purchasing two homes not at the same time, but one before and after he was born. Something didn't go right on the first one so I postponed on purchasing and lost a good all of my earnest money. After his birth, I was in the process of having our house built, but since our relationship began to go south, again, I had to cancel everything. rnIn court, and of course their most proficient tactic was to eventually lie to the judge stating I was never around, and did not support her and my son. I provided and backtracked for all the documentations, receipts, witnesses, and anything that will help out during court and the judge ruled that I had insufficient evidence of me providing for them. Furthermore, I was forced to pay for the health insurance and retro pay since the day he was born even though we lived together and supported. When I heard the outcome, I was very shocked, furious, and blindsided by his unjust ruling. This illustrates that thREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2013Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
I've already signed petition last year and check it every now and then. Yet I really don't see this petition and many others going nowhere. All I've witnessed is the amount of letters and signed petitions increasing, but no change. However, who has the right to tell us how much our child(ren) are worth? Yet we have to get permission by a judge and the non-custodial parent to see our child(ren)? Freaking very foolish! The system only empowers the uncaring custodian parent to use the money on them instead of the child(ren), leech off of the government, and the caring non-custodial parent. What really tops it off is that when I filed a suit against my ex for threatening to leave the state with my child, the judge's ruling was so unjust. We lived together before and after he was born. Yet, I was the one who clothed, fed, paid both our bills, entertainment, and provided a roof our heads. At that time, I was in process of purchasing two homes not at the same time, but one before and after he was born. Something didn't go right on the first one so I postponed on purchasing and lost a good all of my earnest money. After his birth, I was in the process of having our house built, but since our relationship began to go south, again, I had to cancel everything. In court, and of course their most proficient tactic was to eventually lie to the judge stating I was never around, and did not support her and my son. I provided and backtracked for all the documentations, receipts, witnesses, and anything that will help out during court and the judge ruled that I had insufficient evidence of me providing for them. Furthermore, I was forced to pay for the health insurance and retro pay since the day he was born even though we lived together and supported. When I heard the outcome, I was very shocked, furious, and blindsided by his unjust ruling. This illustrates that the system is so out of whack, corrupted, illegal, views us as ATMs, and makes us go into debt. Nonetheless, the system only deprives us from making ends meet, get more into depression and frustrated, and even lead to death. THE CS SUPPORT SYSTEM IS IN VIOLATION OF OUR DUE PROCESS, MAKES US WORK AS SLAVES, AND JUDGES AND OTHER HIERARCHYS' JUST IGNORE IT BECAUSE THE CS SYSTEM IS THE HIGHEST FUNDED SYSTEM IN GOVRN'T! I love my son and have been supporting him ever since he set foot on this earth. However, I know the amount of CS I am paying he will never see it. When I have him the most I end up spending on him is a reasonable $60/month. It?s common sense that no child(ren) costs $600+ a month to support them. I see her get her fingernails done, hair, name brand apparel, shoes, purses, new tires for her vehicle, taking trips while my son wears the same old tight clothing and worn shoes. This is a misrepresentation of the use of the CS. I?ve told her multiple times that the money is strictly for him and she still abuses the money on her! How is it that when we take them back to court forREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2013Someone from Newport News, VA signed.
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May 31st, 2013Someone from Twin Falls, ID writes:
I am fighting the system right now for my kids over a messed up situation. I can support my kids just fine and live comfortably on one income. But now that they are in custody i have lost everything! They expect me to have a stable home but yet they garnish my whole check leaving me with just $20 a month to live on. I lost my home, my license, my car, even my job, but must of all my hope! I have nothing left and now I'm so far in debt i have no way out, and the worst of it is is i was a good single parent receiving no support, doing good and they take my kids while there are kids r there being abandoned, abused, and neglected and the system doesn't even touch them, why? Because they can't get paid the support, they prey on the parents who can pay the system to destroy their lives! The system is too corrupt and needs a change.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2013Someone from Carrington, ND writes:
I'm commenting because not only has the child support system failed me once, it's now failed me twice. I divorced my husband 13 years ago, and have only received 3 years worth of payments. He "can't" work because he has a bad finger..and is going through a workmans comp case..and as my child support officer told me, "you can't get blood out of a turnip". Really???? It's funny, because he has a cell phone, goes to the bars...and manages to wine and dine women all over the Salt Lake City valley...I'm wondering how this is happening with no income?? Anyhow, so, I've supported by son for most of his life now. Fast forward to today. I'm remarried to a man who has 3 children. His ex wife recently had a baby with her "live in" boyfriend, and doesn't work. I'm working over 40+ hours a week. My husband works 50+ hours a week, and we are barely making it. It's pretty sad when you can't even purchase a gallon of milk......however, child support workers have mentioned over and over again that the child needs the same quality of life that they had while the parents were married. Well the childrens quality of life is wonderful when they are with their mom..they spend weekends at hotels, shopping, eating out. Our weekends with the kids are spent at home, eating ramen noodles, and can't even afford the damn milk to drink with it. I'm sick of it. Something needs to change...Both parents should need to have steady income in order to receive child support. And I believe that a yearly inquest should happen on both ends. What is your monthly income vs. bills...The system has failed alot of good hard working people out there. And yes, it might work for some, but I believe it would be safe to say, that those people are the minority. What is it going to take?REPORT COMMENTS
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May 29th, 2013Someone from Buford, GA writes:
It doesn't take $750 per month / per child x 2 equals $1,500 per month to raise a 5 and 7 year old. Parenting responsibilities are 50/50. It takes two to make child and should take two to raise them! However on the momentary side only the father gets hit financially. In our case, my husband pays $1,500 a month for his 2 kids to walk around in shoes either to big or to small, rags for clothes (faded and holes), his daughter has a 2 year old cavity and his son regularly needs a hair cut - ironically only during visitation times. Additionally, there was no heat in their home during the winter and now no AC during the summer. It's insane that in the state of Georgia there is nothing that can be done! Meanwhile, their mother has a new vehicle, hair and nails done weekly and nice new clothes. I feel that if the father is paying $1,500 toward the children's care, then why can't the mother? Bc it doesn't take $3,000 per month to raise 2 kids! No activities for the kids! She has made the kids couch potatoes just like her!! Fathers are not cash cows...they are parents too! I too was a single mother for over 5 years to a child whose father lives over 800 miles away. My son regularly visits during the school year during breaks and we split the summer visitation. When my son is not with me then I do not make him pay child support...there are no expenses for me when he visits his dad. The expenses are then on his dad. It is called CHILD support...not MOTHER support aka shopping fund! The child support system is unethical and against constitutional rights as an American!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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