Unfair child support laws
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Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Nashville, TN writes:
Child support in rarely use for the children issued too. Something should be done to ensure the child/children receive the money! How about a card like food stamps have? Where the card ONLY apply of the needs of the child/children? Not used for house payments. Home improvement! Buying new automobile? The child/children do without, while the parent receiving benefits spend the money on themselves. An if back support is being paid...how come the money doesn't go straight to the child/children of legal age??? Just doesn't make any sense to me?? -
Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Suitland, MD writes:
It should be a way to put the money onto a card and be limited to the things that can be purchased that is not pertaining to the children ie; vehicles, alcohol, clothing for them ectREPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Spencer, OK signed.
Jan 9th, 2016Someone from Cleveland, OH writes:
I'm a mother that has struggled most of my life to provide for my children.i never complain I just do it I have recently had my 14 year old daughter snatched away from me and now they trying to make me pay child support and I doing everything for my child not to mention I'm commission only and I have two other childrenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 9th, 2016Someone from Grand Rapids, MI signed.
Jan 9th, 2016Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
I am a father and I was ordered to pay child support. I work at a job and make $26000 a year and paying for 5 kids. They take over 60% of my chek and now there goingafter my military disability. Even though they cant garnish it they are getting it because either I pay or go to jail. Never mind im with my kids every weekend, when they need anything there mother texts me or has my oldest call me. I give my last to make sure they get wheat they want. Also there mother makes twice what I make. Something has to be done.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 9th, 2016Someone from Melrose Park, IL signed.
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Jan 8th, 2016Someone from Oconomowoc, WI signed.
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Jan 8th, 2016Someone from Elgin, OK writes:
I am a woman, and I think custodial parents should have to work to help support their own children. Men did not make these children by themselves. Too many women are happy to sit on their butts and let the father of their child support them. I believe child support should be same across every state in the US and it should work like this.... it should be a flat percentage of the combined income of both parents AT THE TIME OF DIVORCE OR BIRTH OF THE CHILD, and the dad should pay 50% and the mom should be responsible for 50%. If the mom chooses not to work, then she can figure out how she is going pay for nail and hair appointments and all the other crap mothers spend child support on. If the dad wins the lottery six months later, it should not affect child support, and it should never be allowed to increase. The flat percentage should be same in every state. I truly feel that if we stopped raking men over the coals when it comes to child support, they would be much more willing to pay. How many single parents dad's don't have a job???? Probably way fewer than moms. There should be no gender bias.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
I work and on a fixed income. If I don't work over time I have no money on my pay check They also increased my child support by 10% stating cost off living adjustment. My salary has never been raised to show cost of living increases. Anybody receiving child support mother or father should show the court how this money is being spent on that child with proof of receipts and then the courts can determine in they are eligible for cost of living increase.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Elk Mound, WI signed.
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Jan 8th, 2016Someone from New Caney, TX writes:
The structure and motives and actions and regulations of this child support system are deliberately corrupt and uncaring as to serve an entirely different and secret agenda. The court i have seen the people i have seen working there are hollow and uneducated and without merit. This type of government sector burns a vicious and cruel hole so deep into the ground and fabric of this country so powerful that it has the intensity to wipe out all the good and strenght and life of the Constitution and the Amendments. When i look at this child support situation it looks like a slow homicide of all that is truth and harmony and just. Walk into the court house or sit in the lobby chairs outside and you can feel your soul cry. Feel souls break. Feel your energy drop as if your fainting into a deep sadness. A goverment set to throw humans mostly males to the wolves like this just to get some bucks to pay their employees and court officials is inhumane and fishy and traumatically unbearable. Child support should be looked at as grand theft from a childs piggy bank. Theft done by some cold heartless rich yet still looking for extra cents woman and has found it from the children and men. These women that run the show are stealing with fake smiles and wild eyes and doing it with a giggle. With a trick and without a heart. The woman running a show for other women and when a woman is wrong about something or lies in court or to authories about the father and his identity. Look at the kind of forgiveness she receives when she is wrong about who the father is. Why? The female is the worst almost as bad as a criminal already incarcerated for theft and corruption. I am not tricked by these liars. These bitter revengful now unlucky single parents after that one night stand with that guy at the bar or the woman who likes to trap a man to stay by getting deliberately pregnant with hidden agends. The court documents say one thing and these court players turn around and do another. Unfounded! These females' Poor attempt at deception its so amateur that it proves someone disguised and stronger scarier and more dangerous is allowing this inhumane behavoir from these courts and judges and calling the shots and getting paid real well. In this country everything is for sale. Child support supports more than children and its sloppy structure hurts only children and fathers. Is this money being used to pay off debts? Buy things from third world countries? Is this money being used to pay blackmail and secret bribes elswhere? This child support system and their unorganized procedures of enforcement is a crime against children. As well as a crime against whole familes that this monster goes after. It hurts other children of the father that also deserve attention and not to be shunned by these assistant attorney generals. These asisstant attorney General females ignore other children "not on the docket" and give sick advice to the other family having to go thru this telling the motREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Oxnard, CA signed.
Jan 8th, 2016Someone from Ceres, CA writes:
It take two to make a baby it takes two to support the child.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Arlington, VA signed.
Jan 8th, 2016Someone from Concord, CA writes:
It's time to make a change my husband had tried to file with the child support agency to change his child support amount they ignore his petition 3x and the amount has never change, they should implement the new debit card law from Delaware as well in CALIFORNIA IT CONTROLS what the custodial parents are spending the money onREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Dekalb, IL writes:
I don't have a problem supporting my children and I understand child support is needed. That being said the amount I pay in support is more than we could put towards are children when we were married and she should be paying some of the cost of raising our children. And I don't feel all the money given to her even goes to the children's needs and essentials. There needs to be laws that make the financial responsibility of raising children equal to both parents and the money the residential parent gets for the kids needs to be tracked that it is being used for the children and their daily needs!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Bridge City, TX writes:
These current support laws are absurd and very unfair to the non custodial parent really we have to provide monies that we as non custodial parents have to pay all the income tax on but yet in return we cannot use the child or get any kind of tax break and the custodial parent gets money free and clear of tax and also gets to use the kids as a write off for income tax plus we have to supply insurance all because two people who were at one time fell in love and had children come on we all have equal rights so we as parents should have to also pay for the children Equally... And there must be something that this sorry administration we have in current place can do for the non custodial parent to level the playing field. Have you ever wondered why the non custodial parent seems to always have a poor outlook on payin child support come CONGRESS do the right thing for ONCE change the law!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Walla Walla, WA writes:
Child Support law reform. I support it completely. We must band together, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers affected by these laws and walk to Capitol Hill and demand change. Please organize something! Lots of kids and adults suffering! No wonder this country is all messed up!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Nederland, TX signed.
Jan 8th, 2016Someone from Port Neches, TX writes:
My husband and I work hard to provide for our combined family. He has 4 children and I have 2. 2 of his are under 18 and his child support just went up another $520 per month for a whopping 1200 per month. And we have to pay back the chips insurance program because she has had them on it and they don't qualify because she makes too much money. Her finances nor ability to provide insurance has ever been brought up and is not factored in to the amount of support my husband is required to pay. Now we are facing very difficult financial times and she gets to have a top of the line brand new car, a nice home, nails and toes done weekly for her and my step daughter, 2 lavish vacations a year plus several other weekend trips post month, brand new furniture, breast implants, and the last goes on. I don't think it's right that the non custodial parent is the only one that has to financially support the children. And I don't think after the initial setting of child support, which should be based on both parents income and the lifestyle the children were accustomed to prior to the divorce, should not be changed regardless of the non custodial parents income changing for better or worse. And then to top it off, the custodial parent don't have to claim the child support as income and gets to claim the child as a tax write off while the non custodial parent has to claim the child support he or she is paying as income and gets zero tax break on it. That's messed up.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Stuart, FL writes:
My ex wife fradulantly got on welfare didnt claim income she was getting, I am expected to pay that back which in california they call child support so they revoked my passport so i am being treated like a criminal when my ex is commiting fraud left right and center and i am the one being punished because i am paying and doing the right thing barely able to survive and the arrears is going up instead of down how is this not government extortion if i were to do that i would be in prisonREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Vandalia, IL writes:
an immediate construction of an oversight committee consisting of the ACLU and The United States House Committee of Ways and Means to examine the PRWORA Act of 1996 that converted the Child Support Enforcement and Collection system into a profit generating machine. Which wages war against/neutralizes/dissolves the constitutional rights of non-custodial parents in this country. It wrongfully destroys both the parents relationship with their child, and destroys the non custodial parent financially to a point of no return. Upon which, after that point is reached, excessive garnishment of wages, removal of driving privileges, and incarceration is inflicted upon that parent. This system has run rampant, with no form whatsoever of checks and balances for far too long. I, as well as MILLIONS of non-custodial parents implore you. We are banished from our children, kept from them, and our ability to be viewed as a positive role model to our children is being taken from us at an exponential rate. We non-custodial parents are marked people. As it was in France, the fleur de lis, we attempt to approach the legal system pursuing a fair hearing and we are all but imprisoned for attempting it. We are in dire need of help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2016Someone from Faribault, MN signed.
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Jan 7th, 2016Someone from Bronx, NY writes:
The system is corrupt and the laws were written in 1975 we need a changeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 7th, 2016Someone from Thousand Oaks, CA writes:
Woman is allowed to make decision after an unplanned pregnancy and make the man pay for it. It is rotten unfair. Because the decision she makes is most of the time not good for the baby but to benefit herself who receives the child support money for doing nothing. The money is not spent on the child. Time to change it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 7th, 2016Someone from Caney, OK writes:
Seems to me that the system has been corrupt for some time. Something needs to change! Having been on both sides I see the pain and hardship it puts the non custodial parent in. This saddens me that so many women are out to purposely hurt the man. My son is 11 and I might've recieved maybe 2000 in 11 year's, I honestly could care less about his money all I asked of him was to be in his son's life and he can't even do that. My husband (now) has 4 children previously 2 of which are a definite that he supports monthly 822 to one mother whom works for the local CS enforcement and around 460 to the other childrens mother (whom doesn't work,because she got fired for stealing pills from the pharmacy) both of these women refuse to let him see his children although he asks every weekend that is his with texting documentation. He brings home 400 every two weeks and that sufficient to live off of? He was told when she filed for modification and was awarded the 822 a month from 490 that if he couldn't afford the child we now have together that I should've aborted her this coming from the attorney at the enforcement agency. Definitely shady people working the system.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 7th, 2016Someone from Colcord, OK writes:
I think this should be a law. I'm a single mom of 3, I didn't live on child support! I worked and I supported my kids on my own, I was hard but I done it. It would **** me off to hear a woman at the store gripping about how her baby day hasn't paid his child support yet so she can't buy this or that right now. I wanted so bad to tell her get off her lazy a$$ and get a job but I held my tongue. I know that there are cases where the mother need and has to be home and not able to get job and I understand that. Please make this a law. Make these women help support these children. It takes 2 to make these children, it should take 2 to support them.REPORT COMMENTS
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