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Unfair child support laws

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  • Oct 14th, 2009
    Someone from New York, NY signed.
  • Oct 5th, 2009
    Someone from Hayes, VA signed.
  • Oct 3rd, 2009
    Someone from Colorado Springs, CO writes:
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    My husband and I had a two year old at the time the orders were made. He had a nine year old with a stay at home mom(remarried with two more children with second husband). He was grossing 1940/m. Child support was ordered 436/m with 50/m for arrears he didn't owe(provable with bank statements. he had been paying a volunteery amount agreed upon in writting with his ex) and 100/m to the moms attorney and 100/m to his attorney and 125/m for visitation costs(lived in another state) and 55/m for the attorney retainer put on a credit card. For the child with his ex he was spending 52.6% of his net income. He was left with $782/m to live off of and that had to include his half of our sons expenses which included $240/m for sons child care(work expense) It's a good thing I was grossing $1706/m instead of freeloading like his ex. But we still were unable to pay rent and were forced to move to a bad neighborhood because it was all we could afford. Oh, I forgot to mention the $50/m for braces he had to pay his ex. That's even more above 50% to his ONE other child.
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  • Sep 24th, 2009
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  • Sep 19th, 2009
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  • Sep 3rd, 2009
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  • Aug 27th, 2009
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  • Aug 8th, 2009
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  • Aug 4th, 2009
    Someone from Avoca, NY writes:
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    (1) states reward women's lies with custody and excessive "child-support" in more than 90% of divorces (2) given considerable overlap in number of mothers awarded custody and documented incidence of egregious misconduct and criminal behavior by mothers, courts either award custody to an abusive parent or deny children access to a fit parent in most divorces (3) despite their contribution to domestic violence and child abuse, mothers are awarded custody and excessive "child-support" in more than 90% of divorces because states get about twenty cents from the federal government attached to laws like VAWA for every dollar collected (4) these federal subsidies benefit feminists and the divorce industry, including attorneys, judges, legislators, social workers, law guardians, marriage counselors, etc... (5) representatives of the divorce industry profit from promoting divorce and indulging lies by women and fraudulent propaganda by feminists (6) excessive orders for "support" by states reflect unconscionable pursuit of federal subsidies instead of children's best interest (7) current guidelines for "child-support" are based upon models prepared by unqualified professionals with conflict of interest and in violation of a decision by the Supreme Court (8) Robert Williams and Lenore Weitzman are mostly responsible for current "support" guidelines, but Williams owns a collection business and Weitzman misrepresented studies about standard of living after divorce, claiming that men's increases and women's decreases (9) actually, standard of living decreases for both, and is 30% less for non-custodial parents, mostly men (10) their testimony before Congress concerning guidelines should have been dismissed because it doesn't meet standards of evidence established by the Supreme Court (11) most qualified scientific professionals report that "child-support" should be one-third to one-fourth present orders, and in compliance with almost all responsible economic models (12) most men with custody do not receive "child-support" from their ex-wives, even when their ex-wives have greater incomes (13) even though they can, most women (~75%) ordered do not pay "child-support" (14) cost to state and federal gov'ts for collecting "child-support" can exceed amount collected by a multiple of ten when expenses by courts, law enforcement, "child-support" enforcement, prisons, etc... are considered (15) five-billion dollars were spent collecting $1.7-billion of "child-support" in New York State during 2008 (16) During 1999 in Virginia, 428,000 parents (almost all men) of 552,000 children (half the state's minors) were ordered to pay more than $1.6 billion "child-support" (17) During 1999, twenty-million fathers were ordered to pay almost $50 billion "child-support", begging the public to believe that half of fathers in America abandoned their children (18) Today, more than thirty-million men are or have been ordered to pay excessive "child-support" and more than seven-million are in arrears (19) most men in arrears are unable to pay, approximately 250,000 in arrears are imprisoned, and "child-support" has become a mechanism of indentured servitude in violation of civil and Constitutional rights (20) imprisoned or not, fathers are alienated from their children because myth of their alleged violence is perpetuated by women and states, real violence by women is ignored, hostility of mothers toward fathers is encouraged, shared parenting is discouraged, visitation is not enforced, and fathers are encumbered financially (21) more than 50% of children in the US haven't meaningful access to their biological fathers (22) in many studies, more than 40% of mothers confess to interfering with visitation and more than 75% confess they do not value input by fathers (23) further evidence of lacking respect for fatherhood and of the illegitimate reasons women divorce or have children is DNA evidence showing paternity fraud among 7-14% of children, adultery among 27-53% of married women and courts ordering fathers who are victims of both to pay "child-support" (24) without biological fathers and support of them by mothers, children are at greater risk of abuse, suicide, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, poor academic performance, incarceration, and many other problems
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  • Jul 30th, 2009
    Someone from Orange Park, FL writes:
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    Those who work for child support enforcement should be a little more apt to help when you call regardless if you are the custodial or non-custodial parent. They are rude and none of them care about their jobs.
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  • Jul 14th, 2009
    Someone from Godfrey, IL writes:
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    I don't understand the child support laws, they are totally unfair to parents who do take the responsibility and pay their support. I have four children, the oldest one resides with her father I had her at 16 years old(I have to pay support on this child), my youngest child is from my current marriage and my two middle children are from my ex- husband. My ex-husband owes $12,000 in child support and I can't get any of that support. However, I do pay child support for my oldest who does not reside with me and it seems as though no matter what I do, I can't do it right. For instance, I owed back child support because I have not had a job (due to care for my other three children and my completion of my college degree), but I was still ordered to pay $100 a month (by the way my current husband has been paying for me)....well I finally got a job after searching for a year post college graduation. I payed off $6,000 of back support...and i pay monthly....but I have to pay so many fees to three different states. because my daughter resides in South dakota and I live in Illinois and I work in Missouri I have to pay fees to all of those state so they can garnish my wages. But that is still not good enough the state of SD wants to reexamine my income and they want to know my whole life but who cares about the three other children I have to provide support for and the $50,000 student loan debt I am in and all my other financial responsibilties. I keep on getting pentalized for my responsibility and my ex-husband gets away with owing $12,000 in back child suppport which keeps on accumulating every month. I think congress in all states and across the country should allow the absent parent to not get taxed on the amount, all the laws are very unfair.
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  • Jun 26th, 2009
    Someone from Racine, WI signed.
  • Jun 26th, 2009
    Someone from Sturtevant, WI writes:
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    Child support needs to change! I see it as being biased and unfair. They are all for helping the mothers who have custody and are deadbeat and lazy, but never trying to help the fathers who have custody and trying to help their kids. Child support is quick to force payment of support due to state aided mothers, but not fathers? Quick to throw non custodial fathers in jail, but not noncustodial moms? Where is the fairness in this? Why is it the custodial and noncustodial fathers out there who are trying to do good for their children are suffering because of all those deadbeat dads?!?!? Something needs to change and quick!
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  • May 27th, 2009
    Someone from Chesterfield, VA signed.
  • May 25th, 2009
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  • May 25th, 2009
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  • Apr 25th, 2009
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  • Apr 19th, 2009
    Someone from Huron, SD writes:
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    They also recieve free medical and don't have to worry about that either. Then the fathers have to pay for medical coverage as well. What do the women do? Raise the children. They can work part time, they can tape their soap opera's.
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  • Apr 19th, 2009
    Someone from Huron, SD signed.