Posted on 07/06/2002 5:00:19 AM PDT by buccaneer81
Amen! Amen!
But, although the courts do seem to be stacked against the men, the blame cuts both ways. There are many lazy, immature women out there who put their stupid feelings ahead of the well-being of their children. Also, there are many immature men who marry for looks instead of searching for a woman of character. Often, people put more effort into deciding on what kind of car to buy than they invest in picking a mate.
Until our culture re-establishes marriage as a sacred commitment between a man and a woman that is to be preserved and nurtured, we are in a heap of trouble. And the biggest losers are not men or women but the children caught in the middle.
In one meeting I was in, she had the person who had had a clever idea for a brochure sitting in the room, while she went around the table asking every other person in the company to criticize the brochure. How does someone do that and not understand that it is evil to use position power to insist that people crap on their peers' work... in public and in front of the president of the company? I do not understand people like that. I'm sure the person who had that idea is never going to have another one.
After all I have written in this thread, for you to come back with that is the most disingenuous piece of crap imaginable. I should have listened to those who said your motives for being here were simply to disrupt and to make snide comments.
Discussing anything with you is a waste of time. There will be no more of it for me.
Of course you do. The courts call it "child support". In my case, there is no reason for my ex, making 40k, living in a one bedroom apartment in small town Ohio to be getting $940 a month from me. For one five year old child. Fifty percent of that money is alimony. And I pay the taxes on it. She receives it tax free. That's justice.
Did you get the house?
Replace "men" with "black" and see how it looks. Not pretty, is it?
Yes, and had to sell it (and give her half the profit) because I couldn't afford it on my own once the child support started coming out of me. I literally couldn't make the payment. And I can barely afford the rent I pay now. In a nutshell, after taxes, 401k contribution, health insurance and child support are deducted from my pay, I take home 37% of my gross. That's fair, huh. After all, I'm just a man.
No, I know for a fact that a great deal of it goes toward her legal bills. And so what if it's going into a college fund? That's not the point. And that's not what child support is supposed to be for.(BTW, I have a degree and value higher education, but a college fund should agreed to by both parents, regardless of their marital status).
Not at all...perhaps you should think about sueing for joint custody,I know, at least around here, that when both parents equally raise the child then no child-support changes hands.
In order to have joint custody, both parents have to live in or near the same school district for obvious reasons. She is now 70 miles from me, on back roads all the way. About all I have left is my job, and I need to hang on to it.
On the contrary, I have no faith in the system. It is corrupt and unconstitutional. The child support figure is based on the standard Franklin County formula. I've met men who have been hit harder than me.
That's like asking how the tax code was written. I have no idea. But I assume it would have to pass muster with the General Assembly.
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