More moms made to pay child support

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | May 3, 2004 | MEGAN TWOHEY

[mafree]

I know it's not equal yet guys but it's a start.

[cyborg]

This thread should be good. Wait and let me get my popcorn.

[Dick Grayson]

HA-Ha!

[randog]

Some mothers refuse or are unable to make the payments.

Hold on--let me get my violin....

[cavtrooper21]

Woohoo!!
(although the lady in first part of the article may be getting the fuzzy end of the lolli-pop.)

'bout damn time.

[mafree]

Put lots of butter (real butter) on my popcorn!

[ccmay]

I won't say this is a good thing.

I will say I'd like to see how NOW and the rest of the fembots respond to this.

Judging by their disgraceful record in the Clinton-Lewinsky fiasco, they will have no hesitation in taking a flagrantly hypocritical stance, and no shame in justifying it.

[FITZ]

Maybe both parents should be made equally responsible for everything --- child care, financial support, etc and if the either parent wants to trade more financial support in exchange for the other providing more child care it would work.

[conservative cat]

I feel for the first mom- she forgave him his debt and he turned around and went after her. It sounds like something my ex would pull on me if given the chance.

I've known a couple guys who were the primary caregivers and did awesome jobs- without getting a penny. In both their cases, they did make really good money, though.

I guess it's fair- there are the good and bad on both sides- but ouch for that poor first woman. What an SOB.

[bc2]

My dad had to pay child support to my mom even after she kicked me out and I lived with him 100% of the time. He worked his ass off and said he would rather pay her than fight it.

That was years ago now and I'm "all growed up" (heh). She's remarried so now he's even out of the allimony trap, too.

I was friends with a brother and sister whose parents were divorced. Their dad was rich and their mom was dirt poor. Despite having a couple of lawyers and partial custody of both kids she could never get money from the guy. She ended up being pretty broke and she drank herself crazy the last time I talked to them.

The system really does suck sometimes. God bless my old man for not letting it get the best of him...

[Brytani]

It's very possible, and the article does not make it clear, if he went after her for support or if it was court orders due to the switch in custody.

Now, if it was court ordered instead of by his request, he could be decent and forgive her the support payments.

[drhogan]

your father sounds like a real good guy.

[noutopia]

I got a divorce in 86 after 7 years of marriage and 2 kids.During the separation of 4 months my x-wife was busted for possession of pot and had 2 DUI's.Since I was career USAF she got the kids and most all our possessions.Oh yeah I proved 3 counts of adultery.If you are in the military and male you don't have a chance in hell to get the kids.I paid support till 2002.Wife was killed in 99 so payed my x-best friend for 3 years(her new hubby).Mine is not the only one where the male gets shafted.

[Brytani]

Oh, trust me I know. I've been in child support hell for the last 10 years with my DH. His ex has done everything in the world you could think of, plus some. Bad thing is, she gets more a month in child support, for 1 child, then I bring home in a month. She doesn't have to work, imagine that.

Search on posts from me, I'm 100% fathers rights and know all too well the crap that goes on in the court system.

[ladyinred]

What happened to you is just so unfair and disgusting! You have every right to be angry and bitter about it too. These women wanted equal rights, now they have them don't they?

In the first case above, the mom got the shaft, but for years it is the father who got the short end of the stick.

[Orlando]

There are many fathers that are rasing there childerns on their own, but still have to pay child support system.
I am one of them. Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The system in Milwaukee County is corrupt and evil.
In a nutshell

[brityank]

Ping.

[sauropod]

Have you seen this?

[sauropod]

"A single mother in Milwaukee who had spent years raising her son without the financial support of his father gasped when informed that she would be required to pay child support.

News of the order came soon after the woman had agreed to allow the father to care for the son Mondays through Fridays and had forgiven him the thousands of dollars he owed her in child support.

"Her response was, 'How can he do this to me?' " said Lisa Marks, deputy director of the Milwaukee County Department of Child Support Enforcement.

Sounds like this guy was a louse! I am sorry this woman had this happen to her.