What is your opinion on child support?
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I feel little one support is all right if the father or mother is a very good dad and mom employs the income for the young children as an alternative of shopping all the time or gambling. The point I dislike is when some moms play sufferer declaring the money isn’t sufficient when she blows it all and she will not likely allow the dad have custody figuring out he’d be a better guardian.
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Reply by Leon D
If it is used as it was meant to, then it is a really good issue. Sadly, excellent is by no means the identical as proper, and it does get abused a good deal.
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When you KNOW a mother is blowing the child support on gambling, drugs etc, do the DECENT and RIGHT thing and turn her @ in hon!
i agree with you completely I am supposed to get child support for my daughter he was only supposed to pay 50 a month and in seven years he payed once and it went straight to my daughter needs on the other hand my husband pays more then 450 plus insurance every month and has never seen his kids every time we find her she moves and the one time we talked to her she said its nice that me and my husband can set on our ass when your husband pays my rent and has admitted none of it goes for the kids i honestly thing the parent receiving support should have to keep detailed lists and receipts where the money goes that they have to turn in every month to the child support office showing that its being used on the kids
I have a cousin who had the problem of his ex-wife not using the child support for his girls. She would blow it all and then he would find out they didn’t even have lunch money for school. He went back to court and had it arranged so that the largest part of the child support went into an account for their college when they were older and then arranged to pay their lunch money directly to the school. He also arranged it in such a way that he could buy the girls the things they needed (clothes, shoes, coats, etc) rather than giving money to his ex. I don’t know if this is possible in every state but it’s certainly worth looking into.
Aside from that, I think child support is necessary for the care and well-being of the children. It’s unfortunate that there will always be those on both sides who abuse the system.
Until recently, I thought child support was useless. See, my son is soon to be 3 1/2 and his father has never met him. He’s only taken one glance at him and then he practically ran away from the situation. He kicked me out a week after I found out I was pregnant. I began to receive child support checks from him about two months ago. They were only $ 65 dollars, but I received about 6 of them I believe. I was able to get my son some of the things he had been needing as well as take him out to lunch a couple of times. Now, the checks seem to have stopped, but it was nice to see the effort the man was finally making.
I think child support should be deductible on a graduated scale by the person paying child support if he or she attains a certain level of income, beginning, for example, with 25% for $ 18,000, 50% for $ 36,000, 75% for $ 108,000 and 100% for $ 215,000 in earned income. I would create a parallel deduction for the parent who is receiving the child support payments in the exact same amounts and phases in order to create a similar financial incentive on the other side of the ledger. That way both parents are financially motivated to earn above-the-table-income for the ultimate benefit of their children.
I would not change the rule that child support is not considered taxable income to the parent who receives the child support payment.
This federal tax deduction would create a financial incentive, in addition to the moral and legal incentives, for the obligor to earn more over-the-table income and to meet his or her child support obligations.
My thoughts-
1. In the cases I’ve seen, it is never actually 1/2 of the children’s expenses, it’s usually 1/4 and therefore “not enough”
2. Parents should share the child’s expenses regardless of the status of their relationship or whether they have other children or not.
3. The other parent should pay out and not feel the need to ask where it’s going. Yes, it can be used towards rent, utilities, food, clothing, entertainment, transportation, etc. The child uses these things, so it can be applied.
4. Child support rarely arrives when they need it, so yes, when it arrives it can be used for other things when the children’s expenses have been paid already by the custodial parent.
I don’t get child support, but I’ve heard all the drama from the people who pay it, the people who receive it. Being a mother who doesn’t get it, I can still sympathize with those that do.
The issue of who’s a better parent is debatable, if the child was at risk, I’m sure the father would bring her to court and he judge would place the child with the “better” parent
EDIT- I don’t have any experiance with the scummy kind of people everyone else is talking about, perhaps if I did, I’d feel differently.
It should be 50/50 custody and you’re responsible for paying for them while they’re with you and vice-versa. How can you expect a man to never see the child that he’s giving up a quarter or half his pay check to?