Unfair child support laws
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Sylacauga, AL signed.
May 18th, 2012Someone from New York, NY writes:
Custody should be a default 50/50 with each parent being responsible for expenses during their time. YOUR TIME, YOUR DIME.May 18th, 2012Someone from Saint Francis, MN writes:
I have been a single mother for over 18 years, i have always worked full time and take my resposibility as a mother and the primary care giver of my children very seriously. I do not believe that penalizing a father with over the top child support is fair, especially if the mother does not work!!! Many counties/ states make it hard for fathers to even live on the money they have left over from child support. I believe the mother should work PERIOD! and to be honest i think the fathers should be able to see where their child support money is going.....is it actually going to the child? I know plenty of mothers who use it on themselves.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Saint Francis, MN signed.
May 18th, 2012Someone from Bangor, PA writes:
I am a father who cares for & supports my son and get nothing from childs mother!!! If the tables were turned I'd be in jail!!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
Sexism against fathers is child abuse and crippling men in America-both financially and psychologically. Please fight this!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Beaverton, OR writes:
just because u make alot of money does not mean the mothers should get a piece of it. kids dont need over three thousand a month to be taken care of. the mothers just dont want to work. this is coming from mother. i never took my sons father to court. i think spending time with him was worth more than the money. these women need to work for there money and you shouldnt have kids if u cant take care of them on your own.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Oakland Gardens, NY signed.
May 18th, 2012Someone from Richland, WA writes:
And when they are ordered to pay, make them pay!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Fresno, CA writes:
True to a point.1 There are adequate jobs that pay a person according to their abilities. 2 That like women in the work force today don't get paid 27% less for the same work as there male counterparts. 3 That it's beneficial to the welfare of the child and mom as far as having to hire a babysitter and time spent away from the child.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Brownsville, TX signed.
May 18th, 2012Someone from Grapevine, TX writes:
Where's equality? If these archaic laws stay in effect, then a man should have an equal chance to gain full custody after birth if he so chooses instead of the courts leaning towards the mother. It's sad for loving fathers who want a relationship with their kids to be treated so unfairly for so long.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 16th, 2012Someone from Clarksville, TN writes:
To congress; I am a father serving in the military. Without the service of paperwork (during military service, even though I am supposed to be protected under the the SCRA)a default judgement was issued in my absence for 55% of my pay for two children. I make 48000 dollars per year. I was responsible for two mortgages and all of the marital debt. Meanwhile my wife sat in the marital home without paying the mortgage with the nearly 2400 dollars per month she was receiving in "support" and the mortgage for the home defaulted. Where are the boundries? I have fought in two wars for this country and just like that my own givernment steals my money to give to an able bodied college educated woman? I dont even have a degree! You are supposed to represent the interest of the people and the fact of the matter is you're ignoring the men in this country to avoid looking anti feminist. I understand that these precedents were established because of unfairness to women. There are also laws still on the books about African Americans not being allowed in the city after dark. These laws are no longer enforced because their need no longer exists. This is also true of these dated child support laws. You legislators have allowed archaic anti male laws to continue pushing fathers away from their children....it's no wonder that so many men give up on trying to maintain and afford a relationship with their children. Stop enabling these DEADBEAT MOTHERS. Do something before this problem blows up in Americas face. Whatever happened to equality?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 16th, 2012Someone from Bloomington, IL writes:
The state talks a good story about how all the increased child support enforcement and collections benefits the children. This is pure fantasy. The monies that the state awards, enforces and collects is directly proportional to how much it receives from the federal government as incentive reimbursement funding. And that amount is in the several hundreds of millions of dollars. The monies that the state receives for child support enforcement has no strings attached. The state uses this funding to bolster their state employee and judicial pension plans--resulting in a massive conflict of interest and what some might characterize as nothing short of a criminal conspiracy. The U.S. Supreme Court held in Tumey v. Ohio, Ward v. Monroeville and Gibson v. Berryhill that judges cannot sit on cases where they have a pecuniary interest in them because it would be a demonstration of actual bias. Yet, judges, or state employed judicial hearing officers in the domestic relations courts sit on these cases every day. This has created a tyranny by having the state criminalize a civil matter. As stated in the article, it says that the district attorneys are getting into the act in prosecuting people for child support arrearages. This again results in a blatant due process and equal protection violation. When were the payor parents told, at the inception of the child support matter, that the matter would be converted from a civil case into a criminal case? When were they read their Miranda rights, such as right to remain silent about their financial situation, or given their right to trial by jury or right to appointed, competent effective counsel to defend them properly. As can be seen by this lack of substantive due process--the entire child support enforcement mechanism is a fraud and a scam that smacks of racketeering. If any debt collection agency did this for any other debt, they be facing massive fines and criminal charges. They would be put out of business immediately. New York State claims it is going after so-called ?deadbeats? by criminalizing child support delinquencies and jailing those with large arrearages. Sounds good. However, if one were to investigate the situation they would find that most of the state?s largest delinquent child support obligors are unemployed, underemployed, undereducated, disabled, minorities, or deceased. That?s right?deceased! The state needs to keep those numbers on its books in order to maximize the federal funding it receives. According to a 7-year longitudinal academic study done by Arizona State University Professor Dr. Sanford Braver that became the book, ?Divorced Dads?Shattering the Myths?, it was uncovered that less than 5% of all delinquent child support payors are true ?deadbeats??those with the expensive sports cars and trophy wives half their age. So, where is the child support ?deadbeat? hysteria? There is none. It is being contrived by the federal and state governments in order to control familiREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 16th, 2012Someone from Bloomington, IL writes:
My exwife receives 2000 dollars a month in support (maintenance in disguise) and 500 dollars a month in day car expenses. The judge did not and would not impute her income even though her prior job was over 100K per year. I have two kids from a previous marriage that I support FULL time for the last 15 years. The judge did not consider them AT ALL and slammed me with an obscene amount of support. After 4 years she is going back to work. Rumor has it even though she will be making close to 70K a year, my support will not be modified at all thus creating a huge windfall for her. Change these laws and quit bankrupting dads.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 15th, 2012Someone from Glendive, MT signed.
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May 13th, 2012Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
they say child support is for the kids what about what the kids see when there father is suffering cant pay or live right becouse child support takes everything how am i supose to pay bills buy food pay bills congress needs to stop raping the men trying to live we was good enough to fight for this country but where not good enough for farness in any other wayREPORT COMMENTS
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