Wait, wait, wait. The argument for high child support is that each parent pays a percentage of the child’s expenses.
Dad makes 75,000 a year
Mom makes 25,000 a year
Dad pays 75%
Mom pays 25%
Where is “luxury” anywhere in this????
Oh, right...yeah, this ought to help the Dems who are running for re-election this year. LOL
Won’t matter. The ex will simply go back to court, use the judge touch-pad to dial in the increase that’ll pay for the taxes. (Nope, I’m not divorced, but I’ve seen how this stuff works... and it removes what vestige of respect there is for the law.) You want child support? Place the money into a fund that’s controlled by the judge. Funds go ONLY to the child. See how many yells you get when she can’t make payments on her BMW.
that was a slam dunk in the 1970’s.
the radical feminists got the support of fundamentalists to support the family.
afterwards, men started complaining about the unfairness.
this is bull...the cases I see are where the dad making loads more than mom who has sacrificed career development to focus on the kids, now has to contend with dad withholding money, refusing to pay bills, paying car insurance late, dad flying out to California and living the Viagra life while mom is trying to learn how to do email.......
It makes no sense at all to claim child support is a luxury, and tax it that way. Most of the men in dire straits over child support got behind and then had a hard time because they owed so much money. Maybe other states are different- but my daughter was awarded $300 a month child support for one child and that doesn’t seem out of line to me. Her husband has paid very little so he owes her thousands of dollars- at some point if he gets in a spot where he is forced to actually pay he will likely get sympathy that he doesn’t have coming.
The only gripe I have about child support- is that some states use the new wife’s income with the income of the dad to determine the figure. I think that is totally out of line- the new wife’s income should have nothing to do with it.
This whole issue is transparent.
The government learned from the lawyer industry: Pit husbands and wives, mothers and fathers against one another. Then take a cut of the fight proceeds.
I mean come on, how does a tax on child support help the mom? Or the dad? Or the child?
Who DOES benefit? Cui bono?
I have less of a problem with child support than I do with alimony. If a woman is able bodied and can work, why should she continue to draw money from her ex?
Our family court system is a gynocracy, although I have seen signs of this changing (thanks, interestingly enough, to some fair FEMALE judges in the state courts as of late).
Why is the keyword Digg in you post, but no link to Digg anywhere to be found???