Sage advice. The “Family Courts” are so out of whack a man doesn’t have a chance. I should note that in the instances described above, I had to force the court to do something about her delinquencies. They would never have bothered to try to collect, left to their own devices.
While women have advocates to help them through the process, men do not.
A friend of mine got divorced from his bipolar wife. She got the kids and he dutifully paid child support for several years. Then the kids decided they would rather live with Dad, and they were cramping her dating style anyway, so she agreed to give him custody.
He asked me if I thought he should ask HER for child support. I told him, "do you REALLY want to give her a reason to not go ahead with giving you custody?". At least this way he stopped paying child support to her, while still having to buy the kids clothing, school supplies, etc.
While women have advocates to help them through the process, men do not.
My friend's "legal advocate" required $3,000 up front in order to support her in the Friend of the Court.......
She couldn't afford it so appeared before the judge herself. Other than the judge siding with the ex-husband's claim that he was unemployed and couldn't pay the child support or provided the required insurance for the daughter, she remained screwed while her ex was free to get drunk........