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Unfair child support laws

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  • May 6th, 2017
    Andrew E. from Bellevue, OH writes:
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    Women these days get 1200$ a month from me and I make 28000.... they get 5-7000$ income tax return while I even have to pay the government how fair is that? Withhold women's Income tax until it's positive the man has to pay Again! These women should have to count this as income and men should be able to claim child support they are handing other women especially women that give him a hard time seeing his children
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  • May 6th, 2017
    Andrew E. from Bellevue, OH writes:
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    Women these days get 1200$ a month from me and I make 28000.... they get 5-7000$ income tax return while I even have to pay the government how fair is that? Withhold women's Income tax until it's positive the man has to pay Again! These women should have to count this as income and men should be able to claim child support they are handing other women especially women that give him a hard time seeing his children
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  • May 6th, 2017
    Andrew E. from Bellevue, OH writes:
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    Women these days get 1200$ a month from me and I make 28000.... they get 5-7000$ income tax return while I even have to pay the government how fair is that? Withhold women's Income tax until it's positive the man has to pay Again! These women should have to count this as income and men should be able to claim child support they are handing other women especially women that give him a hard time seeing his children
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  • May 6th, 2017
    Andrew E. from Bellevue, OH writes:
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    Women these days get 1200$ a month from me and I make 28000.... they get 5-7000$ income tax return while I even have to pay the government how fair is that? Withhold women's Income tax until it's positive the man has to pay Again! These women should have to count this as income and men should be able to claim child support they are handing other women especially women that give him a hard time seeing his children
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  • May 6th, 2017
    Andrew E. from Bellevue, OH writes:
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    Women these days get 1200$ a month from me and I make 28000.... they get 5-7000$ income tax return while I even have to pay the government how fair is that? Withhold women's Income tax until it's positive the man has to pay Again! These women should have to count this as income and men should be able to claim child support they are handing other women especially women that give him a hard time seeing his children
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  • May 4th, 2017
    Someone from Hemet, CA writes:
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    This is a injustice.
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  • May 4th, 2017
    Someone from Lewisville, TX writes:
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    I feel that if a man has to pay child support to the mother that he should get the tax refund child credit because he is paying for the child throughout the year and taking care of his financial responsibility. I am a mother of 1 and don't feel that the laws are fair to men in general.
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  • May 3rd, 2017
    Someone from Beaumont, TX writes:
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    Its unfair when they base the child support on gross pay. Most American women think children are an ATM machine.
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  • May 1st, 2017
    RETIECE H. from Cedar Hill, TX writes:
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    YES I THINK SO , THEY SAY I OWE 280,000 DOLLARS IN INTEREST AND MY CHILDREN ARE GROWN AND I PAY 2, 000 DOLLARS A MONTH , WHICH IS 50% OF MY MONTHLY PAY . AND THE STATE OF TEXAS SAYS I'M PAYING BACK WHAT THE WOMAN RECEIVE FROM THEM . WHO PAYS A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS WORKING ON A 9 TO 5 JOB . I PAID IN 167,00 IN MY LIFE TIME AND THEY SAY I OWE 280,000 . WHERE CAN I GET SOME HELP WITH THIS . I'M WORTH MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE , IN THIS MESS . ON MY LAST WITS WITH THIS THANK YOU
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  • Apr 30th, 2017
    Charles G. from Howland, ME writes:
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    Women get the option of abortion, adoption, or to hit a poor broke man for child support. The men have no way out and in some cases are used for a check weekly. Where is the equality? Where is the man's way out.
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  • Apr 30th, 2017
    Someone from Harrisburg, PA writes:
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    Child support is demonstrably unfair. In fact the entire family court system is atrocious and should be dismantled and replaced. I strongly urge congress to rid us of this abomination.
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  • Apr 27th, 2017
    Shannon A. from San Antonio, TX writes:
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    Agreed! Child support should pay for child's needs. Mom and Dad should split 50/50 I am a woman and agree that is just ridiculous taking % of income vs child's needs. Congress needs to help!
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  • Apr 25th, 2017
    Someone from Truckee, CA writes:
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    The laws are not fair. My son's father lied, manipulated the courts, then moved out of state and I am required to continue living where we are living. He is oppressing me. I can not work to my potential in the location of the country and neither can he, this is why he works out of the area but the court is perfectly ok with this arrangement. It's very unfair. Giving the father parental rights should not act to oppress the Mother from earning potential; meanwhile being treated like******by ex because I can't earn enough to avoid accepting child support. It's a mess. It is not best for the child. He only sees our son 1-2% of the entire year yet still has control on our household. Not fair.
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  • Apr 25th, 2017
    Someone from Truckee, CA writes:
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    The laws are not fair. My son's father lied, manipulated the courts, then moved out of state and I am required to continue living where we are living. He is oppressing me. I can not work to my potential in the location of the country and neither can he, this is why he works out of the area but the court is perfectly ok with this arrangement. It's very unfair. Giving the father parental rights should not act to oppress the Mother from earning potential; meanwhile being treated like******by ex because I can't earn enough to avoid accepting child support. It's a mess. It is not best for the child. He only sees our son 1-2% of the entire year yet still has control on our household. Not fair.
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  • Apr 24th, 2017
    Someone from Rialto, CA writes:
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    Child Support Laws are in the Best Interest of the Financial Growth of the Department of Family Services , it encourages separation of the family unit & it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL (the SUPREME LAW of the LAND) States violate citizens constitutional rights which is unlawful & doesn't promote democracy , which is the BASIS of each State to be PART of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, so by the Law isn't that Breach of Agreement or Contract in which the State shouldn't receive Title VI-D Loans,
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  • Apr 21st, 2017
    Someone from Frazier Park, CA writes:
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    I'm going to be paying 25% of my income to child support 25% to student loans 20% for rent 10% on car payment and 15% on bills leaving me 5%. She chooses not to work, lives rent free, collects disability and/or unemployment, threatens that she will keep the child away from me and my family. I fail to see how this system is fair. It's outdated and not keeping with the general population's view of what is fair. I've worked so hard to finally finish school, and now I'm going to be supporting the lifestyle of a mother who CHOOSES to live off of government assistance. Her mother lives off alimony, her mother's boyfriend lives off of monthly disability, nobody in that household works; they live comfortably in a nice condo and are able to go out drinking almost every night at their local bar. Now I have to live on a strict budget to support that behavior.
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  • Apr 14th, 2017
    Alfred B. from Clarksville, TN writes:
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    I don't mind paying my support. What i do mind is the fact that my kids dont see the money. I was taught dont complain if you dont have a solution, so here is mine. When the court sets the obligation it should state that any support paid will be held in an account for the child(ren) until they reach whatever the age the state says support stops. Then that child can use it for college, a car, a house or whatever. I should not have to pay support and my child is still calling me for there basic needs.
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  • Apr 14th, 2017
    Danielle P. from Summerville, SC writes:
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    This is so true! Child support laws are awful. They should be on case to case situations. I myself am supposed to receive child support and am a full time working mother who does not push for it. It doesn't help nor hurt me. I support my kids and my family. My husband is a stay at home dad who takes care of our 2 girls because childcare is so expensive. He is supposed to pay court ordered child support on a child he doesn't get to see, talk to or even know anything about. He has extreme anxiety and hard to find a job, I pay the support for him when we have extra money. He is now forced to go to court over 3500. All because his ex is about to have another baby and is out of work and "needs" money. She hasn't said anything to us in over a year. Things need to change!!!!
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  • Apr 14th, 2017
    Someone from Summerville, SC writes:
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    https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1863323380551690&id=100006221388827&set=a.1863350330548995.1073741829.100006221388827&source=48 This is part of my history with child support
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  • Apr 13th, 2017
    Someone from Powderly, KY writes:
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    I strongly disagree with child support laws because I do have to pay child support while my kids mothers get government assistance and live in income based housing with barely any bills to pay while I have to struggle to pay my bills and support my in home family or even eat but it's perfectly OK according to the courts that I'm at the point of having to work 2 jobs and probably still struggle to get by and I see my kids every other weekend.
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  • Apr 11th, 2017
    Katherine Z. from Oakland, MI signed.
  • Apr 11th, 2017
    Richard B. from Greeneville, TN writes:
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    This is one big issue that really needs to be addressed. There are so many women who has really abused our welfare and legal system now that welfare reform has taken place a lot of woman are now abusing the child support system. We really need to stop glorifying woman by financially rewarding them to stay home and have more kids out of wedlock. Please visit my web sight at; fatherlesschildren.org
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  • Apr 8th, 2017
    Denise S. from Inglewood, CA writes:
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    The court system is very conservative and hard core about child support obligations, up to including wage garnishment and incarceration. The courts tend to favor the kids being reared by the mother in most cases and the laws won't be changing anytime soon. If you question patrrnity, request DNA testing before admitting it or signing anything. Otherwise you're on the hook for life. The purpose of child support is to protect the child from economic impact/hardship of the divorce or separation. The goal is for the child to continue to have basic needs met as well as provide additional things the child enjoyed during the marriage and to keep families off of public assistance. As long as you have parental rights, you have financial parental obligations. These laws will never change even though it works a hardship on the parent who pays.
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  • Apr 8th, 2017
    Someone from Pottstown, PA writes:
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    This is a small step. Women and Family court are using our children for profit. It's disgusting and there is no excuse. It's funny how concerned they are for the children when don't factor in the actual parenting a father provides to the kids. The reason is because it's all about money for them. They only talk in terms of money when child support is concerned.
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  • Apr 8th, 2017
    Sharan J. from Cincinnati, OH writes:
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    A card. Issued that would decline nail salons and tanning and hair salons. Victoria secrets. The money should go to support the childs needs not mom.
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  • Apr 8th, 2017
    Ryan F. from Fort Wayne, IN signed.
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    Someone from Mason, OH signed.
  • Apr 8th, 2017
    Tonya S. from Mason, OH writes:
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    Child support is robbery and the non-custodial parent doesn't have a voice because they are looked down upon by the system. It's sad cause in actuality the child's best interest is not number one priority. Child support tears families apart and puts dividers between families. The absent parent is absent because they are working their tails off to pay for 2 households. The person paying child support pays taxes on the money given to the other parent and still is consider their income while the custodial parent is claiming the children on their taxes receiving "unearned" income tax credit. It's all backwards and sad.
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  • Apr 7th, 2017
    Tina I. from Manheim, PA writes:
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    I understand the payment of child support if a parent has full custody, but I do not understand how there is no regulation how child support is used. There needs to be some sort of system where a parent can track or see how their money is being used and make sure it is being used on the child. A parent can use 100% of child support money on themselves and there is not consequence.
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  • Apr 7th, 2017
    devon D. from North Las Vegas, NV writes:
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    The welfare system is really handing these women a free ride on society the system is not on the fathers side as we all no due to the fact that men just want the courts to realize we supposed to be in the child's life as much as the female that's why are kids in America are so dang dysfunctional most of the child support courts are full of women judges who's acting on emotions and also lonely and angry I'm sorry but it's the truth and I'm very upset about this screwd up system that ponders men day after day it's really sad.
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  • Apr 6th, 2017
    Someone from Silver Spring, MD writes:
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    And they support scorned woman who hide the child from their father out of vengeance and malice. After 3 years they can walk into a court house say he is the father and without any question or repercussions immediately receive child support. How does a court system back a woman who kidnaps a child from a good father that wants to be envolved.
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  • Apr 4th, 2017
    Ryan N. from Saint Louis, MO writes:
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    When is something going to be done? I'm tired of seeing petitions and comments about how this is worng and needs to be changed. WHEN WILL IT BE SOME ACTION. We are pushed around by this system that only cares about getting money from interest from back child support thats why it's easy to go behind. It's designed for all of us that pay to fail so money can be made. I lost my job an filed for a deduction but guess what? I can't be granted a reduction because the woman has to sign. Now every month I pay what I can but what I didn't pay goes in arrears until I get a signature if ever. When will these laws be changed I'm tired of seeing this in the petition stage.
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  • Apr 4th, 2017
    Someone from Valley Springs, CA writes:
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    Child support is just not fair I payed stayed on top of it they kept taking more and more I started falling behind I called them requested to be modified they said no I have three kids I pay for one that is not my own the reason that I left her court denied me a test to see if the child was my own said we were married that makes it mine lol bs I now have new family with three kids child support takes half of my check cannot get help from the state because of what my income sows they don't care what I'm paying in support can't hardly hold a roof over my family's head there laws treat me like I'm a criminal my constitutional rights of gone out the window how can that be legal that's why there are so many dads that just give up child support makes it so hard they see one side and that's it will try one last thing going to try to move my case to a federal judge and see if I can get some fair results
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  • Apr 4th, 2017
    Luis T. from Jersey City, NJ signed.
  • Apr 3rd, 2017
    Michael P. from Lugoff, SC writes:
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    Even housing and section 8 and food stamps should be cut off from those begging sitting at home doing nothing
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  • Apr 3rd, 2017
    Michael P. from Lugoff, SC writes:
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    When will they start cutting these thing off from them i hope it happens i keep hearing about it
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  • Apr 3rd, 2017
    Michael P. from Lugoff, SC writes:
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    Nothey need to cut that stuff off from them
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  • Apr 3rd, 2017
    Latoya R. from Columbus, OH writes:
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    Who said it's ok to put a man on child support because she mad? Please answer that question for me. You have great men out there who do what their suppose to do but some women bitter because the relationship didn't work or whatever. Once you put your name on the birth certificate, your stating you are gonna do what your suppose to do. But no, if your not married they brainwash women to put men on child support so they can get they money. Don't get me wrong there are some deadbeats out there but we're not talking about them. Men that take care of their kids have to come out of pocket for the government just to have rights. But all people think is money so that's how they are brainwashed
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  • Apr 3rd, 2017
    Candace P. from Las Vegas, NV writes:
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    I am sick and tired of these lazy mothers using their children as a meal ticket. Fathers are NOT walking ATM machines. The system is crooked and corrupt. Nothing but a money maker for both women and the state!
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  • Apr 2nd, 2017
    Omar D. from Katy, TX writes:
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    I have being paying child support for 19 years and I'm still paying this support despite the judge made an order to terminate child support. Also, suprisingly the custodial parent decided to have it terminated. Two weeks later I received in the mail the terminated order. Well it gets better The Bronx Child Support Collection Unit has decided that the order should be open and are not providing any response to why this should be open. They are simple disobeying the judge order terminate child support. My oldest child dropped out of college and was working full time and he is now serving in the Navy. My youngest child was kicked out of his mother home on Thanksgiving day and he's now living with me in Texas. After the judge issued the order to terminate child support, The Bronx Collection Unit is continuing to charge me for child support now they are saying that I'm in arrears and has frozen severals of my accounts and have taken funds from two investments accounts. I sent several letters to them and have received no response. Don't know what else to do they are simply violating my rights and making it difficult for me to continue taking care of my child that lives with me.
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