[thinking]

It is, clearly open season on males.....why is it that the wife is not "forced" to contribute to the "child's" support....why is it that the male, is "forced" to carry the load??

In this day of gender equality, one would think that financial support of a child would be shared by the wife and the husband.

Of course, reading between the lines; at a tax rate of 50% on $170,000, $22000 is a yearly payment of $11,000.

[You Dirty Rats]

Of course, reading between the lines; at a tax rate of 50% on $170,000, $22000 is a yearly payment of $11,000.

I don't know about Canada, but in the United States Child Support is NOT tax deductible.

[krb]

Of course, reading between the lines; at a tax rate of 50% on $170,000, $22000 is a yearly payment of $11,000.

I'd think that at a 50% tax rate, $22,000 a year is more like a $44,000 payment.

[GMMAC]

"... Of course, reading between the lines; at a tax rate of 50% on $170,000, $22000 is a yearly payment of $11,000."

The matriarchal socialist republic of Kanuckistan's present tax code effectively reverses your math:
Since 1998, the payor pays the income tax on child support - which the Judge was very careful to call this misandrist theft - while the recipient receives it tax free.
(this amounts to a massive tax windfall for the government since payors are generally in a higher bracket than recipients but that's a whole 'nother story!)

Bottom line: this Court Ordered levy is effectively more like $44,000 off the Doctor's gross income.