Unite For Child Support (MEGA BARF ALERT!!)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 27 January 2006 | Editorial

[phantomworker]

When I filled out the paperwork, the residential schedule was expected to be 50/50 even though the kids ended up staying with me 100% of the time by default.

http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms/

http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms/documents/cu1_0450.doc

[Doohickey]

Thanks, but I'm still very bitter. Does it show much? :)

[colorcountry]

I've been accused of being bitter too. Bitterness is just the tough outer shell we build up to keep us from being stung again.

[napscoordinator]

I know this could be rediculous question, but can't you talk to your ex and ask her for more time off. I guess sometimes I live in the dream world where both ex's try to be civil after a divorse. If that is not your case than sorry about the question. Good luck to you. I bet you are a great Dad and the kids know that don't worry.

[bigjoesaddle]

Vanity Alert

I have a pic scanned, do I need to put it on a host page? Can I do this myself, or does anyone have a page so I can email the pic to them? I have been hunting for this pic on the internet for a long time and just scanned it from an old magazine myself. HELP!!!

[buccaneer81]

do I need to put it on a host page?

As far as I know, yes. But check out HTML Bootcamp (use FR search) to be sure.

[phantomworker]

I live in the dream world where both ex's try to be civil after a divorse.

I really feel sorry for the dads who appear to lose it all in a divorce when it is the wife who was originally at fault or just a divorce, period, when the "marriage" is over. I can understand it seems like a dad can hardly start a new life when he has to pay so much support to his ex-. In some states the rules do seem unfair. If approx 50% of marriages end in divorce, you would think something should be done about it.

For the sake of the kids, I also would expect both ex-s to try to be civil after a divorce and at least try to work out agreements with the kids' best interest in mind. I always thought if it is shown that either parent is vindictive toward the other in front of the kids, they can lose custody. It's something to think about.

[The Working Man]

I am attracted to these particular threads for some masochistic reason. But anyways, my ex-wife left me with three children and almost bankrupt. But I did manage to pull through with with time and a lot of prayer and understanding from creditors.

My youngest child was eight the oldest was twelve. I raised them all on my own without any child support from their mom. It took her almost three years after she left before she wanted to have visitation with her children.

It's been 13 years now, everyone is grown and my ex-wife has been diagnosed as having a mental disorder, she is on medication and has resumed a full and complete life.

So when I read these threads I do realize that we all come at this issue with our own emotional baggage weighing us down and coloring our views.

There are men and women who have by their actions enflamed us, (the reasonable, hard working and responsible for our actions) to the point that we become irrational with each other because "we" don't have the same life experiences and just don't understand why "you" don't get it, what ever the 'it' in question is.

So in a rambling and very general way, I am saying that I love to read what every one of you has to say about this most interesting and life changing subject and that each of us by neccessity of our personal life experience has to approach it from a different direction.

From my own personal experience though I can say that anger will eventually eat you up and that learning to let it go and accept that life isn't always fair and that the tough just keep getting up and going on will get you through the day and eventually through the month and the year ...etc.

[Orlando]

Sad ;(

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/forum

*Check-out*
MND Spoltlight, and Child Support Casualties thread.
This might provide some light into the War on Fathers?