My ex wife had to pay me child support, and I took a guilty pleasure in watching the Contempt of Court hearings. One time it was before a Commissioner who spent two minutes chewing *me* out for not paying the support, touching on every point he could about what a mean and rotten person I was. I let him go on and on, then when he got through his spiel, I asked him if he was finished yet. He got really angry then.
That’s when I told him I’m the payee, and not the payer, and was willing to accept his apology. You don’t often get to enjoy a laugh at the court’s expense.
I would have loved to have been in there.
>>That’s when I told him I’m the payee,<<
It had to be fun to watch him backtrack!
LOLOLOL. What was his reply to that? (BTW, I am in sympathy with men who are forced to pay child support, including arbitrary increases, but for whom the courts don’t make such a great distinction in enforcing their visistation rights. Men get a raw deal in this country when it comes to the divorce, the courts, and their children. I just learned about the Sullivan vs Sullivan case, and thought it was one of the most ridiculous efforts I’ve ever heard of to practically enslave a man in this day and age. I know what my husband went through with the courts vis a vis his ex-wife, and she wasn’t even the one being vindictive or instigating the trouble. He and she had a sensible arrangement-Sixties Mississippi-where he paid her, her bills, whatever his sons needed, a car, the whole works, and of course she was happy with that arrangement. The courts of their own volition tried to get involved so they could get “their” cut, which would have left her receiving less than she was getting in the straightforward “gentleman’s agreement” between the two of them. Somehow they managed to sidestep the courts.)