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Unfair child support laws

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  • Apr 1st, 2017
    Paul H. from Cape Coral, FL writes:
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    Women are vindictive and use the child as a tool to get as much money as they can so they can sit home not work or they underpay themselves so the husband has to get stuck paying more of the money and they can't afford to feed themselves or live or pay their own bills the laws need to be changed men are losing their licenses so they cannot work losing their jobs because they cannot work even men have been shot in the back because they're tired of going to jail because of child support laws.
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  • Mar 31st, 2017
    Barnypok O. from Merna, IL writes:
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  • Mar 31st, 2017
    kathleen c. from venice, FL writes:
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    5050 across the usa no one should get child support n both parents should support the child
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  • Mar 30th, 2017
    Someone from Bronx, NY writes:
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    I agree. Some women are so spiteful. They know that some of these men are very good fathers but because the man is no longer with them, they try to punish the men and their families. Some of them are able to work but refuse to because they want to sit on government assistance. No ambition.
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  • Mar 30th, 2017
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  • Mar 29th, 2017
    Someone from Canton, OH writes:
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    Our Government should not have hands in family life for the reason of turning a profit, earning a commission, paycheck or any other monetary compensation. I myself know first hand know how child support and unfair, unconstitutional family court laws leave mother/child, father/child relationships in shambles. Some relationships are beyond repair after years of hardship and turmoil. This must come to an abrupt end if we are going to repair prospective future of our great country.
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  • Mar 29th, 2017
    V U. from Fort Worth, TX writes:
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    Paying child support is a responsibility that I have to my child and do not have a problem with this. However, my child is 8 and my ex does not work and requested more child support which was awarded to her. Meanwhile my ex goes to Vegas, attends camp gladiator fitness classes while I carry the weight of providing insurance for my child and more child support. When my ex wife requested my income to be checked so she could receive more child support, the court (Parker county) immediately began garnishing my wages due to suspicions of not paying child support when we were separated a few months 7 years ago, leading up to the divorce. When I went to court to present my bank statements that I did pay child support, the courts acknowledged my payments and stopped the garnishment of my wages. Out of the 12 months of garnishment of wages and the court recognizing that I fulfilled my financial responsibility 7 years ago while separated, the court refused to reimburse or give me credit from the garnishment! I disagree that all the financial responsibility should be on the father!
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  • Mar 28th, 2017
    Rebecca S. from Crawfordville, FL writes:
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    I totally agree. Income is divided equally to support the child so both parents should contribute equally.
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  • Mar 28th, 2017
    Someone from Richlands, VA writes:
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    My child is 15 years old, the mother says she can not work, yet has provided no proof to that effect. My child support went up because she is now providing 0 income. Shouldn't child support be 50/50? The court says I am 86 % responsible because I am a working tax paying citizen while she is only 14% responsible and is not a tax paying citizen. I provide all health care as well.
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  • Mar 28th, 2017
    Jonathon T. from San Antonio, TX signed.
  • Mar 28th, 2017
    Someone from Bolivar, TN writes:
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    I think that incr the child gets a year old both parents should work not just the father..... I am in a situation similar to this my ex-wife has me on child support as well as her baby daddy before me and hasn't held down abjon for more than a year in over 2yrs and still getting child support..... So tell which part of that is fair we men pay up for our children while their mothers lay around and rack up..... Waiting on a response...
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    nancy m. from Norman, OK writes:
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    Bahahaha...... Not true for all. I get $360 a month two kids with $400 daycare copay support does not help with and work two jobs with fibromylgia.... He kept the house in the divorce left us homeless to go live w my parents for a month til i burned my own credit trying to give them a home... My rent is $825 studio one bedroom apt..? Dhs wont even provide daycare without women working full time!!!? Dipshit and clothes are expensive. They need them. And i miss when they could have me at home, but no they have two hours between school and home and bedtime with homework. I have two weekends withm a month same as dad!? And he's out buying 4wheelers and boats only giving her $360 a month.. What about dental? I make 2,000 month thats it!!! So FYou an your momma boy opinion loser.... You shoulda treated them better if you dont like it.
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    Jacob G. from Swainsboro, GA writes:
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    Agreed, signed
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    Someone from Vista, CA writes:
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    I agree. Child support should be abolished. . It has ruined families . Everybody should be responsible for themselves. A good father would help anyway. But it shouldn't be governed by law. Just makes angry people and tense home lives.
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    Someone from Vista, CA writes:
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    I was just thinking of starting my own petition. Not only do I agree with this message I think even more should be done and many agree with me. The courts need to understand that the non custodial parent has to support their own household and most often times other children who live with them. The custodial parent should have to work and should be responsible for their own household. Child support should only consist of a small amount to help with their child's part of the bills. Not their vacations etc. the non custodial parent should not have to support a household where the custodial parent is remarried. When someone marries another person with children they make the choice to take that family and responsibility on. The way they calculate the amount is rediculous both incomes and time spent? While the mom is sitting there such as in our case with a house given to her by her father.. and over 1600 in child support from two ex husbands and a third husband who owns his own business ands works from home. That man and the mom have no financial responsibility as the amount of support they get pays for everything. I now understand why men run from child support. They are forcing these men into extreme poverty which isn't good for their kids to see. If the custodial parent is remarried then the support should only consist of help with extra curricular activities and school supplies . They don't take into account what they are doing to the children in the home of the person paying child support. It shouldn't go by income. That discourages people from working harder because half their money is gone. They never get ahead. I say it should never go over $300. If one parent does not want to work or can't afford to work then let the children live with the father. Kids need their dads just as much as the moms. Honestly in my opinion government has no place in our personal lives. Not like this. It's intrusive and really is wrong
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    Devin W. from Indianapolis, IN writes:
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    I am a father of four which 3 are adults one is a teenager I don't mind paying support I was one of many fathers to agree with this since I loved my children and couldn't get along with the mothers my oldest two children their mother was not treating our children right I couldn't see my kids as often as I like to I was steadily going through tough changes and court because of her constantly running downtown because of this it was hard to keep a job they take my taxes every year then threaten to take action if you don't pay the amount you owe them before they take your taxes again it doesn't make since they way the laws are it doesn't make since to take our taxes and keep them and not deposited into the account until October so you could be paying double they won't give you your money back right away to make things worse you can't spend time as you like with your children if you're living on your own trying to stay on top of countless bills by working your life away trying to make up for the money they take my three of my kids are grown now and my oldest children have children and I'm still paying for support and it's sad and rediculous a man should be able to live and enjoy his children all this money they are collecting and the children will not see it if the mother is on assistance they make the father pay for it I feel these laws are unjust it breaks up the family makes the father unable to provide.
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    scott i. from Bloomington, IN writes:
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    I get $22.00 a week in child support. My son's mother works at climb time indy. Her boyfriend owns the company and helps her lie to the courts. Steve her boyfriend pays her on a pre paided visa card. I know she works over 40 hours a week. She claims she works 20 hours a week but she is always there working. Durning spring break when she had my son she work every day and every night. Its not fair she gets payed cash by her employer to claim less on child support and fssa. They have a kid together and she uses the system to get insurance when the father of the child makes enough money to support the medical care for his child. They live in same house but tells courts and fssa they are not living in same home. Morgan county court system wont do anything about it. I go to court about once a year for custody. Last court date she got held in contempt of court. Then the courts just dropped the case. She lied in court and got away with it. I know Indiana is a mother state but its wrong to let her go when the courts wanted to put me in jail for speaking my opinion. Judge said he thinks I have a mental problem. Then turned around and appointed 57 orders for my son's mother to follow. My son's mother record our conversation and integrated my son to the point he was running away from her as she yelled at him to answer the questions.Then gave it to the courts to hear. She is mentally abusing my son and i can't get anyone to look into it DCS dont even care to do it.
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  • Mar 27th, 2017
    Someone from millville, NJ writes:
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    This system needs to end. Everyone should work for their own money and not get a free ride from their ex-spouse. This system is destroying men.
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  • Mar 24th, 2017
    Jerod C. from Edmonds, WA writes:
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    Why is it that 2 child support officers have told me I'm getting screwed and need to get a modification but when I fill out the papers they are sent to the Snohomish county WA prosecutors office and they deny the modification. WHY DO PROSECUTORS, the people who prosecute people criminally review child support? There needs to be an outside agency who reviews it. DSHS cannot get your child support lowered despite hard times like they say they can. This needs to change.
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  • Mar 24th, 2017
    Someone from Baltimore, MD writes:
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    I agree, signed
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  • Mar 24th, 2017
    Someone from Lancaster, PA writes:
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    We have custody of my step daughter all but 6 DAYS A MONTH due to her biological Mother's lack of stability (housing, jobs, men etc...) and my step daughters desire to be with us. Yet have been ordered by domestics to still pay child support to this "Mother". We pay for all extra curriculars, meals, clothing, field trips...you name it! How is this fair?
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Melissa S. from Montrose, MN writes:
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    Signed.
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Lisa F. from Sylva, NC writes:
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    I'm in Jackson Co. NC. My son has two children that he has always provided very well for. 2 1/2 years ago we found out his wife was using heroin. She left him 15 months ago. Walked out on him and both kids. Her parents, my son and myself have been supporting the kids for over 2 years now. Due to my work schedule (2ndshift) and my sons schedule (worked days and nights as scheduled by Lowes) the kids stayed with her parents unless my son was off work. His wife didn't stay with her parents, unless she needed to. She has spent about 3 months with the kids in 15 months. She has worked maybe 2 months in 15 months. She went to jail in early July (drug charges) and is currently on probabtion. She moved in with her parents during the early part of September and started in wanting money. She tried to get money from me and my son. Her Mother tried to extort money from my son. We wouldn't give her any money so she decided she was going for child support. Amazingly enough she GOT it!!! In direct disregard to the guidelines set by the state. Currently my son has the kids part time and she has them part time (actually her parents have them on her weeks). New child support papers was issued last month. The local child support enforcement office (Christi Hooper) has falsely reported my sons gross monthly income as almost $500 more than it actually is. Also the child care and insurance is LOWER than what he has provided receipts for!! His lawyer is fighting it as we have provided proof of everything. How is it legal for NC child support to falsify income and try to get away with it? When we asked her about it, she said he could afford it!! Myself, my son and her parents are going broke trying to provide for the kids!! True to her character, she's pregnant by someone, not living with her parents ( which according to her PO, she's supposed to be), she's living with a man that beats her up and controls her, she won't work (which she's supposed to contribute 1/2 of the children's needs, according to NC guidelines set forth by Judge Danny Davis). She doesn't even use any of the money for the kids. I had to pay for my granddaughter to play soccer and my son bought her the necessary shoes!! When is she going to be made to do her part? How can NC falsify income to get more money? She doesn't even keep the kids at all !! They're with her parents or my son all the time!! I live right above her parents and across the highway from my son so I know everything that's going on. I'm almost 52. I raised two good boys that takes care of their responsibilities. But I can't enjoy my life because I'm having to help my son pay his lawyer and take care of his kids, so he doesn't lose everything he's worked for since he was 16. By the way, his wife is still using drugs, even pregnant!! And she's got a current RN license!! When will she be made to do her part???? Like I said, we have proof of everything I've told you and more, but it's one lawyer battling several NC state attorneys, so I don't know what will happen. I just wish something could be done about the state falsifying wages. I worked and raised my boys, provided as well as I possibly could. I even work for the state of NC!! Thank you for taking the time to read this. Even though we're probably stuck with our one lawyer against several of the states attorneys, I hope something good comes from all this. Should you have questions feel free to email me.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Someone from Wood Dale, IL writes:
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    My husband had a child with his ex girlfriend prior to our Union and Illinois has this ridiculous law "first comes first". They have you fill out a financial affidavit that doesn't matter because it's not about what the man can afford. After we married we had 3 children that we could easily afford on his paycheck. Granted, she hasn't modified the support order since HE put it in 8 years ago but now she's in line to benefit from us marrying, OUR children's tax deductions, and the deduction we now get from our home mortgage taxes. Those shouldn't be on the table. She has also married and had an additional two children. She has NEVER worked. He pays insurance for my step baby too. Ridiculous. All children should be equal. Now we are going to struggle because she is in line to benefit from our happiness.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Gregg H. from Albany, NY signed.
  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    carolyn s. from port huron, MI signed.
  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    carolyn s. from Port Huron, MI writes:
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    it needs change, so many father's struggle to make a paycheck then pay 60percent to the women. It doesn't matter if the child is five or an infant. Most women sit on their asses and get assistance and child support so why work. It needs amending break it down to where the father and mother share the child and pay nothing to one another unless in a hostile environment. I see so many dad's who love their kids and the mother's are cheaters and then cry about what they want and once they get child support it isn't spent on the child it is spent on her partying, nails, car payment, hair and clothes. What is it going to take to get the laws changed to make it smoother environment for all. If the mother gets a huge income tax check and the father is struggling, it should be split or deducted off his payments, why should the mother get 10000.00 in tax check and waste it and still get child support but yet the father has to work two jobs to survive. absolutely ridiculous.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Someone from Camp Hill, PA writes:
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    While now just going through this. I see the amount I'm going to have to pay. I don't even spend half that amount on the three of us .These laws need fixed.
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Christian S. from Havertown, PA writes:
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    Defund Title IV-D and E, restore the constitution, end debtors prisons, encourage fast and fair marriage dissolutions with 50/50 shared custody and no child support.
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Someone from Albany, NY writes:
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    while it is important to support the children financially by the two parent but the way the system is set up favors the women only, why the child support money is not being controlled of how the women are spending it ? why it is not considered extra income for the mom and tax deduction from the dad? it needs men votes collectively to change such laws to be fair or it makes sense please join the following for men's right in the US http://avoiceformen.com another organization for men's rights in UK http://network4men.org
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Greg R. from Joplin, MO writes:
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    I pay child support, my ex is custodial parent, therefore she gets to claim the children on her taxes and i don't. This is like telling me they are not my kids. I cannot comprehend the proven fact that dads that dont pay and are not stepping up to the plate as fathers are getting by with it. Fathers like us, who pay support get penalized from the state of MO. We have to pay an annual processing fee from the state, my employer charges me $ to process the CS payment, also I am held totally accountable for my payments, yet she (my ex) does not have to show how the CS $ was spent. Missouri is also a no fault div state. So i get penalized from the state, from the govt and from my emp because I pay CS. Its a screw job. Im 47 live in a one bedroom apt, I have nothing, no internet (im doing this from work) no cable, and i make a middle class income (supposedly) I pay health ins, plus extra for other items CS does not cover. Fathers are having to get two jobs to pay CS, and what does that do for the kids??? the father is so exhausted he cant parent worth a damn. This is not about money, its about parenting.....but i will tell you the good guys get screwed in this. It must change. HELP US PLEASE
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Jennifer H. from Picayune, MS signed.
  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Someone from Mooresville, NC writes:
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    The Judges and Lawyers in our court houses are corrupt and the sad part is that they hide behind their job as an excuse to be a decent person of this world! The legal system has been corrupted like the rest of America with it's not what you know but who you know that entitles you to the employment position! I have been screwed twice with in the past 8 months in the court rm. and am out of money thanks to the lawyers and judges! This is their way of keeping us out of the system by charging us until we can't afford anymore! I have documents and testimony to back up my complaints like everyone else and it all falls on deff ears. This is an abomination that the government can rule you in such a personal way and not hear one word from you! I was told that I could not speak when I was on the stand and had to watch false documents run across in front of me!!! N.C. is a whole in the wall state with no regrets on what is right or wrong.
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    William E. from Mooresville, NC writes:
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    The Judges and Lawyers in our court houses are corrupt and the sad part is that they hide behind their job as an excuse to be a decent person of this world! The legal system has been corrupted like the rest of America with it's not what you know but who you know that entitles you to the employment position! I have been screwed twice with in the past 8 months in the court rm. and am out of money thanks to the lawyers and judges! This is their way of keeping us out of the system by charging us until we can't afford anymore!
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Evan D. from La Porte, TX writes:
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    Totally agree. Collecting the check, and WIC, welfare, etc and posting on Facebook about fancy purses and clothes they are buying
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Sherrie H. from Las Vegas, NV writes:
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    Child support is "Modern Day Slavery," to all race, nationality, creed, belief, etc...THIS NEEDS TO BE BOYCOTTED. I plan on taking actions!!!
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  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Someone from North Las Vegas, NV signed.
  • Mar 17th, 2017
    LaDonist M. from Antioch, TN writes:
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    Women who are making almost twice of what the father is making should not be taken more then half of his paycheck. I believe 50$ a week per child should be reasonable enough. A flat rate.
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  • Mar 16th, 2017
    Aidan F. from Hinesburg, VT writes:
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    Bring up the issue with a woman or the state, and they will tell you that you must take your debt and like it. If you protest, you're not taking your "responsibility" "seriously." America is not a free country. We need to end forced fatherhood. The State of Vermont already has my DNA on file, and if I had neglected to get tested, then I would have simply been ordered to pay. At no point did I have any choice in the matter of parentage. We already know that a woman who chooses to have sexual intercourse is not choosing to become a mother. Why the double standard for men? Although contraception is important, this issue is not just about contraception and never will be. Just take a look at safe haven laws. For low income fathers, child support is peonage, and it is clearly illegal. Read UCLA Law Professor Noah Zatz's paper about New Peonage: http://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/bibs/zatz/Zatz-NewPeonage.pdf
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