Hi. My name is Ron. I encourage you to read the following pages
and make yourself aware of some of the flaws with the current child support laws.
Also, please bookmark and share this website with others to help make them aware of some
of the flaws. I would love to see these laws modified, but I can't do it myself, and
I don't even know entirely how to go about doing so. However, I'm willing to try to
learn if it makes a difference. But I can't do this on my own. I need everyone
to please read up and educate themselves. I've even come up with a possible new
formula for determining child support as well. You can find it on my Suggestions page.
I'll preface this site by telling you that most of
my arguments on this site are about custodial situations where each parent shares custody
by close to 50%, not 100% custody situations. These are two very different
situations and so should be handled differently. I think a large portion of our
society views all child support cases as 100/0 custody cases and that biases their opinion
incorrectly on 50/50 custody cases. Also, I'm not a large fan of welfare.
Although I don't have a problem with helping people in need, I believe welfare is very
easily abused and is abused way too much. My opinions on child support
don't wander far from that same opinion. The best interest of the children is to
have a healthy and happy home. Allowing one parent to squander money and 'leach' off
of the other parent is not, in my opinion, in the best interest of the children. It
not only shows a bad example to the children on how to live, but it also puts both
households in financial hardships.
For many of the reasons I discuss on this website,
I feel that parents with 50/50 custody should not pay each other child support, because
when they do:
1. There is very little incentive for the lesser earning parent to earn more.
2. The higher earning parent gets 'trapped' into continuing to be the higher earning
parent.
3. Both households suffer from the CS transfer. (One household operates on lower
finances, other household gives up a portion of finances, thereby affecting both)
4. More income earned by the lesser earning parent is most definitely "in the
best interest of the children".
Child support laws NEED revising. We have so
many double standards; a system that punishes parents who have sought out a better
workplace or education and rewards parents that haven't; a system that makes a profit off
of money that's supposedly "for the kids"; a system that treats obligors of
child support as non-custodial parents regardless if they share custody 50% or not; etc.,
etc.
If you asked me, I'd tell you that the best
interest of the children is for the parents to work out their differences and stay
together. Failing that, the next best thing for the children is for each parent to
get off of their ass and work, provide a proper home for THEMSELVES as well as their
children, and try to find a living arrangement where each parent can spend maximum time
with their children (even if it means receiving less support money). The
children should be able to spend maximum time with each parent and each parent should be
able to spend maximum time with their children.
We need to stop this standard we've set where
lower-income parents in a 50/50 custody situation are able to use their children to obtain
free money from the other parent even though the other parent is providing the majority of
the support!
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