Unfair child support laws
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Jan 12th, 2016Someone from Baxter, TN writes:
I'm not against Child Support. What I am against is putting people in jail for it! Ridiculous. Not everyone is a dead beat for not paying...some have good reason. For instance. My son is required to pay 600.00 a month for two kids. A bit steep I think especially on minimum wage. He is out of work at the moment and looking for work as I type this. No one knows the stress it puts on a family thinking the law is going to pick him up before he has a chance to get another job! I don't care what anyone says It just not right. I AM TOTALLY AGAINST IT!!! As long as someone is trying and making what payments they can should be good. I raised both my son's without asking for child support and we did just fine. I also never kept their father from seeing them. Change the law now.! Be human and have some mercy. -
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Jan 12th, 2016Someone from La Vista, NE writes:
My ex wife sits at home collecting $1050 for child support plus $300 in alimony in Iowa. Every man works hard for his money and what he has accomplished in life. Does not matter if you divorced it seems like you're still married to her. Supporting somebody you don't want to associate with or be with. Given somebody a free ride does not make no sense.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 12th, 2016Someone from Plymouth, OH writes:
I despise how even if the woman cheats and causes a divorce and they have kids together, the man has to pay the price. I thought women want to be equal with the man? If that's the case, then they have just as much right to earn wages to support their children as much as the man. Sickens me how some women have babies so they can lay on the couch all day living comfortably off of welfare and the child support they collect while the man goes out and breaks his back to barely pay his child support that she's "definitely using on the child". Child support is a scam.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 12th, 2016Someone from Nichols, WI writes:
I'm a eight year that my ex-wife ran off with eight different guys while I was deployed to Afghanistan. While I was in a school to become a sergeant for two weeks I came home and walked in on her with another man while she was four months pregnant with my daughter. I already have orders for Germany and couldn't get out of . After two years of trying to get a divorce I finally got it . And have been paying child-support ever since. I'm now out of the military 60% disabled. And still have to work a full-time job. I make over $18 an hour . My ex-wife only works a part-time job . Because I was in the military I can't get custody of my daughter . Why is it my ex-wife gets a portion of my disability and a portion of my full-time job . I tried getting a part-time job and got yelled at by the courts . They never once told her she has to have a job . When we got a divorce we were told we were not allowed to remarry for six months . I waited . She got married after two . The courts told me they can't do anything about it . And yet they're the ones that set the rules . In Wisconsin if you are a male don't going to the courts . They don't care about vets and I don't care about dads.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Park Forest, IL writes:
There are no law's in existence in the United States of America. That give father's any rights as far as our children are concerned. We must think of our son's future. The laws must be charged. If they don't change them. We must appoint different people to those posts that will. The persecution of father's must end now.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Waterford, MI writes:
Sorry I don't agree on any child support laws.. honestly did the man carry the child, give birth, raise them. In my case I had by an ex who left his 2 children and the FOC set a support order for $40.00a month for both kids. Granted I married and my husband died and I didn't have a penny to my name. I put a roof over their heads while dad goes on vacations and sporting events. Why does my income from ssi from my husband's death factor in at all for income.?, he pays 40 a month for 2 children. . I would like to see a law change that there is a set amount per child. Change the parents by the hour for taking their kid . See how many men will not take their ownREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Harvard, MA signed.
Jan 11th, 2016Someone from Gonzales, TX writes:
Child support needs to be based on a child's needs and then split right down the middle 50/50. If it takes 1000.00 a month to raise a kid ( IT DOESNT) Then child support for dad needs to be set at 500.00 per month. There are two parents and the mothers need to be accountable for the child she made too. If dad provides medical insurance he shouldn't have to pay Co pays or persrciption either. Parents should rotate claiming the child on income tax and the year mom claims dad should be able to right it off and she needs to be taxed as additional income.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from South Bend, IN writes:
The system is unjust! My husband has been paying support faithfully on his youngest child while we received custody of his other two older children. One is an adult now and the other decided she wanted to run away this last Summer. Her mother decoded to immediately get benefits for her. And then the state pulled us into court. The judge ruled in our favor and told the mother she would have to now file for custody to get benefits. The judge then suggested we file a juvie report on the daughter because she would not stay in school or our home. ThenMy husband did so. the state refiled against us again two months later pulling him into court. Saying he must come up with past- do amount since the daughter ran away or face jail time all because they can't go after the mothers illegal activity because she's mentally disabled, which is another story in itself. Another reason we have custody of two out of three children and the only reason we didn't get the younger child is because we didn't have $ for a lawyer. She has been deemed mental has a record of abuse on top of it. Now they are taking our tax check and threatening jail time! Where are our rights? This is lude! Its not about the best interest of your child! Its no wander that men and women run for the hills, the system forces them too! We are trying to do what's right and where's the Justice?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Glasgow, KY writes:
I pay my support and get my kids like I'm suppose to yet I'm always getting dragged to court and the judge feels sorry for her! I agree some guys won't take care of their children but don't punish the ones that do!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Washington, DC signed.
Jan 11th, 2016Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
Agreed!! Should be a low set amount!! Not a percent of a man's income! And welfare moms need drug testing, cps visits, and forced to participate in parenting classes, work programs etc!! Not allowed to sit on their fat asses all day feeling like they are owed!! Nasty sloths!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2016Someone from Murfreesboro, TN signed.
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Jan 11th, 2016Someone from Cumberland, MD writes:
Laws for Child Support need to change. The person who you chose to have kids with should only be entitled to normal income such as your job not VA Disability, SSDI, rental income, capital gains, lottery winning. Kids receive Ssi payments from Social Security why should x's be entitled to a Disable Vet income and their SSDI too. If they receive SSI why should they take from the others too. Fathers are paying too much and do not want to increase their income to better themselves as they know the x's drag them back to Court to get income which they should not be entitled too. As that relationship is exhausted. Please revamp the laws. Fathers pay while mothers the court takes from the fathers while they live on all the social programs available food stamp, Section 8 housing, Energy Assitance, School Assistance and on top of all that they do not have to pay taxes on child support as income. Wtf why don't fathers get to subtract theirs paid out, but mom don't have to claim it coming it so many double standards. We need to rethink this pass some new laws let father get back on his feet instead of continually throwing him under the bus. In addition, there are so many good fathers out there and mothers keep their children from them because of personal reasons without any recourse. The law say you have to pay child support but it doesn't say anything about the fathers that pay getting to see their kids. Wow u can pay but the moms don't have to let you see the kids so unfair. Congress it's time to change the laws. TyREPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 10th, 2016Someone from Bridgeport, CT writes:
The laws need to change to be fair for both parents. Women fight for equal rights, they got it. What about the men, everything should be equal. Not one sided. When a man goes into court for Child Support or Custody of a child, he's doomed! The Judge always sides with the women. Men don't have a chance. Same as a divorce , Men never get a fair case in both if these situations. Please make it fair.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 10th, 2016Someone from Bridgeport, CT writes:
The laws need to change to be fair for both parents. Women fight for equal rights, hey got it. What about the men, everything should be equal. Not one sided.When man goes into court for Child Support or custody of a child, he's doomed! The judge always sides with the women. Men don't have a chance. Same as a divorce , Men never get a fair case in both if these.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 10th, 2016Someone from Stoughton, MA writes:
I worked hard my whole life did the right thing Sprint and saved to purchase a home put myself through school to get a decent paying job due to the court system and child support all of it has been taken away I spent over $50,000 just to get 50% custody of my daughter. Pls help what kind of message are we sending to the childrenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 10th, 2016Someone from Houston, TX writes:
The system is incredibly flawed. My husband has two children from previous marriage and pays child support. He was diagnosed with cancer 1 year ago and was unable to work or make any money during chemo and radiation. The 'ex' recently filed enforcement with the court and he could possibly go to jail for not being able to pay while he was going through cancer treatment. She makes triple what he makes on a good year of steady work. She does not allow him to see the children because she is a control freak. It's incredulous that the woman ultimately gets to decide if the child will be born but father will pay for her decision regardless of circumstances. So many women purposely get pregnant to try to trap men and then the women get the sympathy card from the courts. Only the non custodial parent's income is looked at and taken into account. If the mother (custodial parent) makes 100k a year and father (non-custodial parent) only makes 20k a year, shouldn't this be taken into account? I have little faith the system will change.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 10th, 2016Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
Children should not be used as a check! Child support is for the child!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 9th, 2016Someone from Loris, SC signed.
Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Conroe, TX writes:
Enough with women using children as a paycheck!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Sacramento, CA writes:
I'm being taken for an unreasonable amount of money, threatened with things that will be taken from me and promises of incarceration...REPORT COMMENTS
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