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I live in the United States, a country with a judicial branch that applies the law to the facts and determines what is legal and illegal.

That system is no longer in use in the area of domestic relations. The current system is arbitrary, dictatorial, and extremely bureacratic. Facts and conclusions are now presumed in the law, and anything goes because higher courts approve of state authority to order child support and enforce child support orders. No state that I know of currently has a proper definition of the term "child support" in their statutes -- most states have no statement of definition nor do they have a set of principles upon which the amount of child support is based. They have simple arbitrary formulae that have been determined politically by a central committee. Without sufficient definition and principles upon which to make a decision independent of the formulae, there is no statutory basis for challenging the presumption. The many facts presumed into the making of the formulae are not stated and cannot be checked against real case circumstances. The formulae are not based on any rational theory of child support. They are simply dictatorial and arbitrary en masse decisions made by a central committee. The object of using the formulae is to increase the amount of child support owed / paid, which increases the amount of federal funding received by the states and the amount of profits for private child support collection agencies. This isn't theory. This isn't a wild guess about what's going on. This is what's been going on for more than a decade, and it's been looked into carefully. This is the basic story about child support reform.

What about custody? Custody is not determined based on facts. Sole custody is "awared" to a mother even if she's strung out on heroine and can't make it to the hearing because she's in jail for murder. Fathers sometimes get custody under unusual circumstances or after a very expensive legal battle, but some of them don't get it even when mom is putting his children up for adoption.

Divorce itself? What facts are involved in getting a divorce? She wants it. That's typically the fact of the matter. She gets it and all the prizes that go with it. What the father gets is a life controled by organized crime, corrupt politicians, and psychotic political extremists. All the while they also get the opportunity to discuss the situation with people who believe that the courts operate according to the constitution. They don't.