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"CHILD SUPPORT VENDETTA IS A NON-FICTION BOOK ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT AND
WHAT I WENT THREW WITH THE COURT SYSTEM"

THESE ARE TOPICS I COVER IN MY BOOK, EXCEPTS FROM OTHER POINT OF
VIEWS!

My friend has 2 kids to his ex which he pays c/s to and she remarried
not long after they seperated and have no other kids, i had one child
to my ex partner and 1 to this relationship, i receive c/s for my
daughter and pay her private school fees sport fees and clothes etc and
always send nice outfits and money with my daughter when she visits her
father and or when he takes her out and i always offer to give him
money for it but he declines seeing he pays c/s, but on otherhand my
partners ex never sends clothes for the kids we have to buy and supply
everything and we have them alt weeks in the school holidays and alt wk
ends, since the c/s law changed this year we lost our entitlement for
ftb which we were entitled to for the 2 kids and our large family
supplement as in total we have 4 children, but also our c/s dropped but
a minute amount but didnt cover the ftb that we lost....anyway since
the laws changed and it took the mothers income into affect so she quit
her job and made her new husband work 7 days a week, he has no kids. i
think it is so unfair.. she cant supply clothes for them and they go
without at home and wear clothes that are 3 x too small and or have the
same clothes 3 days in a row because theres no clean clothes and shes a
stay at mum,but yet she shaves her hair and can afford to buy multiple
wigs cos she had a britney spears moment and replaced her whole makeup
collection with chanel and buys lite and easy meals weekly while the
kids eat cheese and macaroni or toasty sandwiches for tea.. i feel they
should take the new partners income into account as centrelink does
once its a defacto relationship why shouldnt c/s.

THE UNFAIR COURT SYSTEM

In the court of law, you are supposed to be innocent before proven
guilty. You are supposed to be given the benefit of doubt. Your
amendments and constitutional rights are to be used when situations
arises. But guess what, THE COURT SYSTEM DOESNT CARE! When it comes to
the system when it is dealing with child support, all men are created
equal, IN BEING GUILTY! It doesnt matter if youre right and she is
wrong, the courts will 8 out of 10 times rule in favor of the mother
(which is the custodial parent)! There are many more good fathers out
there that dont get recognized and gets punished because of this
misconception of fathers and the abuse of mothers. The courts view a
good father as one who pays his child support and a bad deadbeat father
as not paying his child support. Well what if a good father is actually
BAD and a bad father is actually a GOOD father? Let me explain. A good
father who pays his child support but doesnt and hasnt spent any time
with the child is considered a GOOD FATHER. Now a bad father because he
doesnt have the financial means to constantly provide for his child,
but takes care of his child, gives him love, care and emotional support
is considered in the court eyes a DEADBEAT FATHER! Now you tell me what
is wrong with this picture? The system is so greedy for money and blind
that they dont even care about the child or you personally being there
for your child, only financially! The unfair court system ruins,
confuses, manipulates both parents and reward no good deadbeat mothers
with finances that 7 out of 10 times doesnt go to the child!

MOTHERS AND FATHERS FIGHTING OVER MONEY PAYMENTS FOR THE
CHILD

The same story echoed a dozen times through Room E8 of Manhattan
Family Court in a single day: fathers, pinched by the recession,
pleading for a reduction in child support.
A salesman at Saks Fifth Avenue who is estranged from his teenage
daughter said he feared he would be included in the next round of
layoffs expected at his store.
A man who had been laid off from a factory said he managed to find work
at Mets games, but for less pay, $9 an hour. Another man, on the verge
of eviction, begged for a break from his $315 monthly payments.
Last week was my childs birthday, and I couldnt get him a present, he
said, burying his head in his hands. This is killing me.
Since January, Family Court in New York has been filled with urgent
requests like these, alarming judges and overwhelming calendars with
what are known as modification cases.
Similar patterns are unfolding across the country: In Clark County,
Nev., which includes Las Vegas, the district attorneys family support
division has received an unusually high number of calls from parents
who previously paid diligently but are now having trouble.
The child-support office in Milwaukee saw a 20 percent spike in the
number of custodial parents seeking enforcement of support orders last
year, with most of the increase coming in the fall as the unemployment
rate there began to creep upward.
To explain why they can no longer pay as much per month, the parents,
typically fathers, cite layoffs, cutbacks in work hours and the loss of
homes to foreclosure. Presented with documentation of falling incomes
and rising expenses, judges often have little choice but to grant the
downward adjustments, even in the face of protests from mothers
struggling to support children.
Magistrate Matthew Troy, a stocky, gregarious man with a white
horseshoe mustache who is one of 15 judges hearing such cases in
Manhattan Family Court, said the decisions can be brutal. Its not a
trickle down its a direct route, he said of the effects, especially in
poor families. Everybody who relies on the father gets hit.
The reductions force some families to apply for welfare for the first
time, while others become increasingly dependent on food stamps or risk
eviction when they come up short on rent.
In many cases, its devastating, said C. A. Watts, the director of the
district attorneys family support division for Clark County. Some of
the parents absolutely depend on that money coming in. Its a domino
effect. The custodians need the money to feed and clothe the children.
If the money stops, it puts a burden on the custodial parent, and they
have to come up with funds another way. Theyre not going to let their
children starve.
The amount of child support varies based on individual family
circumstances, but New York State begins with these guidelines: A
noncustodial parent generally pays 17 percent of gross income for one
child, 25 percent for two children and up to 35 percent for five or
more children, as well as a share of child care, medical and education
expenses.
We see everything, said Peter Passidomo, chief of the states 125
support magistrates. High income, low income, across the board. Its
just like in an intact family where the income earner has lost the job.
Though Family Court in New York is open to the news media, names of the
parties are typically not revealed.
Judge Troy, who has been a Family Court judge since 1999, said that in
recent weeks he had seen a former Lehman Brothers executive whose $7
million in stock had disappeared, leaving him unable to pay his child
support. And then there was the divorced couple whose combined income
had surpassed $400,000 until they both lost their jobs and were
scrambling to figure out how to pay two private-school tuitions on
roughly $800 a week in unemployment benefits.
Most, though, are more like the man who went from a decent-paying
factory job to working in food service during Mets games in Queens.
Judge Troy lowered his monthly payment for his three teenagers to $50
per month, from $686. Otherwise, he feared, the father would be unable
to meet his obligation and face a more drastic punishment: jail.
It wasnt his fault he lost his job, Judge Troy said. I dont want to
throw a guy like that in the clink.
The Saks salesman, on the other hand, whose 19-year-old daughter was
asking for support for the first time, was ordered to pay $544 a month.
(New York allows child support to be paid for dependents beyond age
18.)
In the case of the father who could not buy a birthday present for his
son, Mr. Troy agreed that $315 a month or 23 percent of his $16,640
salary was too much. But the childs mother, over speakerphone from her
home in Georgia, angrily protested that she was already paying $1,800 a
month for the childs expenses.
He is capable of getting another job, she said. I see no reason for him
to get any kind of modification of his child support.
The judge ultimately took the woman off speaker, and instead spoke
quietly into the telephone to calm her down. He lowered the fathers
payments to $50 a month (about 4 percent of his gross income).
Somebodys got to make the call, Judge Troy said after the hearing had
adjourned. Thats the call Im making.
Mr. Passidomo said magistrates throughout the state have grown
increasingly concerned about the volume and breadth of the modification
requests. Upstairs from Mr. Troy, in Room 8C3, Magistrate Sudeep Kaur
said she sees herself as very strict about reducing child support, but
lately has had little choice in a spate of cases in which fathers have
come to her after losing their jobs.
It really has to be something beyond their control, she said.
Lisa J. Marks, the director of Child Support Enforcement in Milwaukee,
said her office has seen an influx of noncustodial fathers who have
lost jobs in sales, construction and the service industry.
We have seen individuals who have had fairly good income, and its not
there any more, she said.
Its really a teetering issue for child support offices, Ms. Marks said.
You have one party who is really desperate because theyre not getting
the full amount of support. And their expenses have increased, and
their hours are probably decreasing.
On the flip side are the fathers, and they dont have a job at all
anymore, she said. You try to maintain fairness.
The court will typically order fathers to pay a portion of their
unemployment benefits in child support. But if their unemployment runs
out, and they have no income, the court will temporarily resort to what
is called open support, Ms. Marks said. What that means, she explained,
is you dont have to pay any child support.

DEADBEAT PARENTS

When a parent is ordered by the court to pay child support and
continuously fails to do so, he or she is commonly referred to as a
"deadbeat."
"Deadbeat parents" and "deadbeat dads" are not synonymous. Not all
deadbeat parents are dads! There are also many moms who have been
ordered to pay child support and have fallen behind, as you can see
from jurisdictions that post lists of their most wanted deadbeat
parents online.
Child support is completely separate from visitations. In the eyes of
the law, the parent who owes back child support payments still has the
right to visit with the child. Therefore, any parent who is in distress
over missing child support payments should take the steps outlined
above instead of withholding visitations. Refusing to allow your child
to visit with your co-parent because he or she has unpaid child support
could jeopardize your good standing with the courts.

HOW FATHERS CAN BECOME BETTER DADS AND THE UNFAIR
TREATMENT OF FATHERS!

The general perception of child support in non-intact families is
that, after divorce or other family court actions, fathers usually are
expected to maintain their own household and provide payments to
custodial mothers in their homes. The problem with this typical court
assignment is that it often restricts a womans ability to work full
time and, just as often, it places a hard budget burden on men who dont
enjoy enough time with their children.
Several decades after the last feminist movement, the majority of
mothers do work outside the home today, either part time or full time.
Economic inflation, the cost of health care and the subsequent need for
day care, however, have outpaced the benefits of two-parent incomes in
most families, intact or otherwise.
Feminists often complain that gender bias and wage disparities in the
workplace prevent women from becoming self-sufficient and realizing
their full potential as contributing members of society. The larger
truth is that, if mothers were ordered to equal child placement in most
family courts, they would have much more time to achieve those economic
goals.
Family breakups are generally just as financially difficult for fathers
as for mothers. Womens advocates often claim that divorced or separated
mothers are quickly reduced to poverty, while newly single fathers
enjoy large increases in their standards of living. Once again, this is
outright nonsense. The average, wage-earning father can ill afford to
maintain his separate household with wage deductions of 19 percent or
more, as well as a share of medical and educational expenses for his
children.
Media reports refer to many fathers as deadbeat dads. Most single
fathers are either on schedule or at least making their best efforts to
pay their court-ordered obligations. Up until the recent, nationwide
economic collapse, the huge majority of these noncompliant men were
low-income parents who are most likely to be unreliably or irregularly
employed.
Its doubly insulting to call a man a deadbeat dad in the public arena.
Those who use such angry, insensitive language dont know the complete
history of his marriage, his divorce, his health status or his
employment. Like the N-word for black people or the B-word for women,
this term demeans his value as a father who loves and cares about his
children. It also implies that hes a stereotype, no better than all the
other dads who wont, or cant, support their children, especially in the
current recession amid an employment market thats been steadily
outsourcing jobs to places such as China, India and Mexico for several
decades.
Its time to stop scapegoating fathers who, all too often, have lost
jobs with competitive wages and benefits to business forces beyond
their control. Non-intact families in the future will be much healthier
economically when both parents enjoy more equal time with their
children and, as a result, both mothers and fathers will have the time
to pursue worthwhile, self-supporting employment.
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