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Child support and divorce prejudice, the real deal

by: Bob Muchnick

 

According to the child support formulae of virtually every state, CS is "calculated" (a truly loaded word) based on some version of the respective incomes of the parties weighed against their respective parenting times. So child support is almost an inevitability unless the parents have identical incomes and identical parenting times.

The inequity lies partly in the fact that, once divorced, each spouse is a stranger-at-law to the other, sharing only one nexus: Responsibility for the offspring.

Child support is based on the profoundly flawed legal construct that child should enjoy an nearly the same lifestyle AFTER divorce which they enjoyed prior to divorce.

This is an utterly unrealistic expectation, superimposed on divorced parents via activist judges. Divorce changes things. There are two households to support now. Oftentimes the real emotional devastation of divorce causes the incomes of one or both parents to diminish for a while or maybe longer than a while.

In the "real life" of married parents, when there is a change of material circumstances, the family simply adjusts its expenditures to meet the altered situation. In divorce, though, the STATE dictates a level of "support" which is often -- perhaps usually -- unfeasible for the "paying" parent, most often the father, who not uncommonly winds up sleeping on somebody's couch or in someone's basement due to impoverishment by the fascist system of wealth transfer in the face of inexorably changed financial circumstances. While the recipient, almost always the mother -- since women skew the formula by getting "primary custody" irrespective of their "incomes" -- need provide no accountability as to HOW the payor's money is spent: booze and birth control pills can be paid for out of "child support" monies just as easily as can the expenses of shoes and clothing for the kids.

The test for divorced parents should be, very simply, are your kids clothed, fed and sheltered reasonably adequately while in your care -- the 50% of their time they are in your care, that is. If so, end of story. If not, give the kids to the "other" parent and get your life together. NO money changes hands, except for a pro rata share of extraordinary expenses, paid to the professional or institution, not the other parent.

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