How much is too much child support? Mom asks court for $28K a month

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution ^ | 01/21/07 | BETH WARREN

[FreedomCalls]

A lot of people raise two kids quite well on $28,000 a year.

[FreedomCalls]

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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If he can afford a gold sink then he can surely afford 28K a month in child support.

I'm still shaking my head in disgust at the gold sink....does it emit holy water as well.

[trimom]

F. Scott Fitzgerald said it: The rich are not like you and me.

They are way crazier. I said that.

[Chickensoup]

Hey if dad is making 1 cool million a month, 28K is not a lot to ask. The children are entitled to have the same sort of perks as dad, including a nurse called Mom.

[skaterboy]

if the money will go to the kids but this is not...its going towards mommys shoe collection

[grjr21]

The children are entitled to have the same sort of perks


child support payments have apparently been going towards her $600,000 home in south Atlanta, splurging on designer clothes, cruises without the kids and a tummy tuck. She also spent thousands of his money on a Steinway piano, as well as private school tuition and diamonds for her oldest child, a teenage daughter from a previous relationship.


I don't think that the 6 yo's are the ones getting the perks

[RightResponse]

Love to see fat-cat lawyers, making out of wedlock babies, getting it stuck to them. Wouldn't doubt that he's made it on the other side of the coin.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

That is the hardly the point. The point is "child support", not a lifestyle comparable to their father's. Like the liberals do with taxes, this woman wants a certain (huge) percentage of her ex's income for herself, in the name of child support. ("It's for the children")

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

One 'the' too many in the first sentence.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

"Gary's attorneys said he was willing to pay $14,000 a month until he found out Gowins had stopped putting money into a college fund for the twins and was instead spending much of the cash on herself"

WORTH REPEATING..."spending much of the cash on herself"

This is what happened TO ME for 17 years !!

I have and am distraught about my money that was suppose to be going for raising my only Daughter was only a little slice of what I was paying.

My EX didn't (and still doesn't) supply my 19 year old Daughter with her own Bedroom !!

Then, after it was to end per Law, my EX not only tried to extend it, but RAISE it - after it was suppose to end !!

Thank God I stood up for myself (LIKE A GOOD FREEPER...) and brought it up to District Court and Won.

[FreedomCalls]

If he can afford a gold sink then he can surely afford 28K a month in child support.

Sure he can afford it, but what's the point of paying it of it's not going towards child support but instead is, quote:

"going towards her $600,000 home in south Atlanta, splurging on designer clothes, cruises without the kids and a tummy tuck. She also spent thousands of his money on a Steinway piano, as well as private school tuition and diamonds for her oldest child, a teenage daughter from a previous relationship."

And there's this:

Gary's attorneys said he was willing to pay $14,000 a month until he found out Gowins had stopped putting money into a college fund for the twins and was instead spending much of the cash on herself.

[buccaneer81]

If he can afford a gold sink then he can surely afford 28K a month in child support.

That's not the point. The goldigging b!tch wants a lifestyle. Period. Two kids at 28k is nuts.

[LAChicka]

Like the saying goes...don't do the crime, if you can't do the time, or somthing like that.
The guys is married and this is the price he has to pay for a few good orgasms!
So she got a tummy tuck, after having twins it's a necessaty.
As for being a stay at home mom to 6 year olds, yes,it's still a full time job until their in late high school.

[SoftballMominVA]

I remember about 10-12 years ago when Suzanna Cooke divorced Jack Kent Cooke and went to court several times to complain about the child support she was getting. If I remember right, he paid for school and not much else--maybe $2k a month and then not even that after everything was put into the trust. It was ugly. Suzanna complained she couldn't even afford riding lessons for the tot. Tragedy indeed as they lived in horse country, VA.

BTW, both names, Suzanne and Jacqueline are pronounced with an "ah" where the 'a's are -- as in SuzAHnAH and JAHk-leeene. Gotta pronounce them correctly or Suzanna would be annoyed.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Actually, I think it's way below the guideline and should be close to $280,000 a month for 2 kids.

[Mo1]

If they are worried about her big spending habits .. then take the difference and put it in a trust fund for the kids

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

...a few good... O-k!

TMI - don't remind me.

[Mo1]

Like the liberals do with taxes, this woman wants a certain (huge) percentage of her ex's income for herself, in the name of child support. ("It's for the children")

But she isn't an ex ... she is a mistress

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's a picture of his private jet.