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Unfair child support laws
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Jun 28th, 2012Someone from Naperville, IL writes:
Husband's ex-wife hasn't worked in 19 years. Lists her occupation on facebook as "lady of leisure" -
Jun 28th, 2012Someone from Naperville, IL writes:
Husband's ex-wife hasn't worked in 19 years. Lists her occupation on facebook as "lady of leisure"REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 28th, 2012Someone from Naperville, IL writes:
Husband's ex-wife hasn't worked in 19 years. Lists her occupation on facebook as "lady of leisure"REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 28th, 2012Someone from Denver, CO signed.
Jun 27th, 2012Someone from Anaheim, CA signed.
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Jun 27th, 2012Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
My husband was approached by an old girlfriend from high school 3 years ago, she told him her son was his. We wanted a dna test and said we would work something out. She was immature and acted like a child so we hired an attorney, our attorney advised us to stop contact with the ex and have ex contact her to set up dna and child support. The ex dissappeared we didnt hear from her again until now...three years later this boy is now 16. This time we went straight to child support to avoid the drama. We have a family of 3 children and one on the way, my husband our sole supporter and yet none of that was taken into consideration or the fact that this woman lied to him and kept this boy away for all these years. Now my husband is being ordered to pay not only retroactive support but current. Current is fine but retroactive for a child he didnt know about. Now our quality of life is distrubed because now she decides that she wants money. the ex has no intention of allowing or encouraging this child to have a relationship with our kids or my husband, in fact she told us he is 16 and would rather be with his friends so if he didnt want to visit he didnt have to...so unfair!!! what about everything she kept from my husband...first words, steps, baseball games etc. He missed out on his whole childhood becuase she lied and kept his paternity a secret. We even have an email from her stating she lied and no one knew about his paternity. Where is the best interest of that child or my children. the child support is UNFAIR TO FATHERS WHO WANT TO HELP SUPPORT AND BE IN THEIR CHILDRENS LIVES!! The sad part is I have a sister who used to get child support checks for fifty cents...yes 0.50 and what would they tell her hes paying something!! So many low life fathers out there and yet they Prey on the ones who actually work and want to take care of their responsibility.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2012Someone from Gretna, LA writes:
Dear Sirs and/or Madams My NAME IS JOHNNY SPEED III, I LIVE IN GRETNA, LOUISIANA WAS RECENTLY ORDERED TO PAY 955.00 PER MONTH FOR ONE (1) CHILD. I WAS NOT MARRIED TO THE MOTHER OF MY CHILD, WE MET, HAD A BRIEF RELATIONSHIP, AND MY DAUGHTER WAS CONCEIVED. WE HAD DISAGREEMENTS AND THEN SHE WAS OUT OF TOUCH. IT BOTHERED ME EVERY SO OFTEN TIL ONE DAY I DECIDED TO FIND HER. WHEN I FOUND HER, I WANTED TO KNOW WHATS UP WITH THE CHILD. I DECIDED TO DO A DNA TEST AND WHEN IT SAID (THAT I WAS) I ASKED HER WHAT KINDA OF HELP SHE WANTED FROM ME. WE AGREED THAT I WAS TO GIVE HER 460.00 A MONTH AND WHEN THE CHILD GETS OUT OF DAY CARE I CAN GIVE HER 300.00 A MONTH. THEN ABOUT TWO YEARS LATER I GOT AN ORDER TO APPEAR IN COURT. FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO SEE MY DAUGHTER. BABY MOMMA HAS ANOTHER CHILD WITH ANOTHER GUY THAT SHE ISNT IN RELATIONSHIP WITH, BUT MY CHILD IS BEING TOLD THAT HE IS HER FATHER. IN THIS ECONOMY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT MY HEALTH, AND THE TYPE OF WORK I DO, I WILL BE WITH OUT A JOB FOR A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME. WHEN THAT HAPPENS I WILL PROBABLY WIND UP IN JAIL FOR NON PAYMENT, AND THAT WILL BE THE BREAKING POINT FOR ME. BOTH PARENTS SHOULD SUPPORT THERE CHILDREN. HOWEVER THE SYSTEM SEES YOU AS A DEADBEAT?.PERIOD. WHEN YOU TREATED LIKE A DEADBEAT THAT TAKE LIFE OUT FROM UNDER YOU AND THEN NOTHINGS MATTERS. WHEN YOU BABY MOMMA KEEPS THE CHILD FROM YOU IT BECOMES VERY EMOTIONAL. THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ATTENTION PAID TO THE CHILD SUPPORT AS WE KNOW IT, BUT I JUST DON?T SEE THAT HAPPENING.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2012Someone from Wake Forest, NC writes:
How can a man be a father to his children, when he works 7 days a week 12-16 hour days to pay child support, that makes him a low income household but can not get any assistance because child support he pays isn't considered. He not only can not see his kids, he can not live, own a house, a car. How can the government provide assistance to a woman who get child support but not to a man who pays it? In the end its unfair to the child. Money isn't parenting.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2012Someone from Raleigh, NC signed.
Jun 25th, 2012Someone from Murfreesboro, TN writes:
I pay 1200/ month in child support. After taxes, health ins, and the child support is deducted I make $450 biweekly. And have 2 in home children. How can I take care of them off this money. I can't even afford rent and utilities. The court provides an attorney for the mother. But not one for me. I can't even afford an attorney to see if this can be reduced.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2012Someone from Cartersville, GA writes:
if both parents worked during the relationship then the custodial parent shouldn't be able to collect if they are not employed and should face some of the same penalties as the noncustodial parent including jail time and license suspensionREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2012Someone from Fort Worth, TX signed.
Jun 24th, 2012Someone from Williamsburg, OH writes:
when veterans are killing themselves because child support is too much we need to change the laws that are so biased againt men most of all repeal the bradley amendmentREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 24th, 2012Someone from Midlothian, VA signed.
Jun 24th, 2012Someone from Midlothian, VA signed.
Jun 23rd, 2012Someone from Carbondale, IL writes:
Don't loose your job or start a buisness to help. They can sieze your accounts and take away your drivers licenses. What good is that for eather. When a system becomes bias something needs to change. There seems to be little help for those that want to do the right thing. I want a FAIR system. Stop making good parents into criminals.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 23rd, 2012Someone from Ragley, LA writes:
For the record its not just men paying child support. Im a woman an i pay child support.I think there are more catagories here that fall under this petition. I havent seen my children in over 4 years. Not because i dont want them. Its forced by the state. my daughtetrs an i are victims of ocs stealing my chuldren an selling them for profit. I make 600 a month disablity and i am ordered to pay 500. I still have to support the one daughter that i do have ,off of 100 a month. give me a break it is impossible.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 23rd, 2012Someone from Palestine, TX signed.
Jun 22nd, 2012Someone from Lithia, FL signed.
Jun 22nd, 2012Someone from Staten Island, NY writes:
My sons mother waited for my son to be 18 so she can take me to court for child support. And sad part is i have to pay and he is not even considering to go to college.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2012Someone from Birmingham, AL signed.
Jun 21st, 2012Someone from Reading, PA writes:
It's outrageous. I get my child 50 percent of the time and still have to pay 700 dollars a month. Because I make 20,000 more than the mother. Unfair to be charged that much money for equal custody.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 21st, 2012Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
Jun 21st, 2012Someone from Wentzville, MO writes:
This system needs an overhaul! I have two kids and pay their dad support . I have worked my*****off to get through school- I walk away with all the debt, ex husbands student loan debt, and child support. This system is ridiculously terrible, fix it! Stop awarding laziness!!!!!! He gets paid cash on side jobs and I can't prove anything. He makes a killing the way the system works today!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2012Someone from Wolfforth, TX signed.
Jun 20th, 2012Someone from Xenia, OH signed.
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Jun 19th, 2012Someone from El Paso, TX signed.
Jun 18th, 2012Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I am paying 800 a month for a child that my ex wont even let me see. She is sitting on her behind collecting my money and not even attempting to find a Legitimate job let alone further her education. She is a high school drop out relying on everyone else to take care of her while the courts aid in her shiftlessness. Its not the fact that i have to pay for my child its the fact that i made it a point to succeed in life and she is given everything for nothing! Due to the recent increase in my cs payments it has put a great financial burden on my shoulders and causes me to break down regularly. Something needs to be done!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 18th, 2012Someone from Kansas City, MO signed.
Jun 17th, 2012Someone from Covington, GA signed.
Jun 16th, 2012Someone from Crossett, AR signed.
Jun 16th, 2012Someone from Camden, AR writes:
I agree with this. I am a mother that works to support my children without complaint. I am suppose to receive cs from my ex husband for our son but he refuses to help with him or visit him or call him for that matter. I think that both parents should help support the child/children reguardless. U made the kid u help support it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2012Someone from Crossett, AR writes:
Not only should they get a job, Child support should be based on my set hours, not my OT . Cant work extra so i can do things with my kids with out my CS being raised...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 15th, 2012Someone from Fort Smith, AR signed.
Jun 15th, 2012Someone from Stroudsburg, PA writes:
They should have to work full-time when the child reaches the age of 12 and can be home alone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 15th, 2012Someone from Camden, AR writes:
This is True in my case. I've been divorced for 3 years now. An to this day my ex has yet to get a job. Instead I see her post on face book every other night about the awsome time she had with her girlfriends at the bars. The only reason she still has a roof over her head is because of me and goverment assistance in louisina. She will never get a job as long as she is able to keep getting free help from the goverment and the child support I send. Now Im not trying to get out of paying child support. But it isnt right that one parent for a childs whole life be the only one responsible finacially for that child while the other parent gets a free ride. Not only is this not right but that parent should work to increase thier childs living conditions for the well being of that child. Not sit an live off of childsupport and government handoutsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 14th, 2012Someone from Hephzibah, GA writes:
Being young and dumb I had 4 children with 4 women at age 20. Now I'm married with 2 and everyone of my kids mothers are married as well. While in my teens I wanted take care of my children best I could so I got a full time job and a part time. (no tome for school). Now 13 years later) the plant I was at has closed and I only have a pt job. Each of the 4 kids outside my home has a significant amount of income coming into the home while my wife and I struggle to pay the support orders and take care of our kids. With my full job I was still making less then every other home. So 3 of the outside kids are still the only child receiving my support plus the support of two parents. My two here are receiving the little I have left plus their mothers. How is this fair?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 14th, 2012Someone from Roanoke, VA writes:
How can judges be so inconsiderate? I think they do it just to show that they can exert their power. The laws are definitly in need of reform. Signed by a caring and responsible fatherREPORT COMMENTS
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