re: Is the child support system outdated and in need of an overhaul?

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2500 ain’t shite for 2 kids. Whoever gets custody will be financially in weaker position

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Maybe the custodial parent should stop buying flip flops from Lulu. $2,500 is plenty to take care of kids, reasonably. When mommy no longer has a husband, she will be in need of a j-o-b.

2 kids? lol how do you expect them to work when daycare so expensive or you ok sending them to a crappy daycare?

Child support should be claimed on taxes. Women should add it as income and the man should claim it as an expense.

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2500 ain’t shite for 2 kids. Whoever gets custody will be financially in weaker position

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$2500 should supplement income, not replace getting a job.

It sucks, but it is the role you play.

Yeah, you gotta take care of the kid. Kind of the key part of that 50/50.

It needs to change. Don't forget that on top of the child support paid to one spouse, the other spouse still needs to maintain a house as well. Another issue is if you have multiple children the support stays the same until your youngest child turns 18. I have 4 children. I had to pay the same amount for 1 as I did for four.

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That obligation should be more malleable based on who is working. In theory it's effectively assuming the receiving parent isn't working, and when both are working it should be lower

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My ex is a doctor and makes twice what I make. She pockets 1/3 of my take home pay because of the calculator and how rigid and black and white the whole thing is.

ETA-We have one child.

Yeah and it’s especially fricked in Louisianastan. My ex signs my kid up for every private lesson and travel ball bullshite and I’m on the hook for 80% of everything with no say so. My total cs burden is about 50k a year.

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dna should go into a database and cross checked annually with other dna databases

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the shite people say without thinking about it for even 10 seconds

I’m thankful my ex and I agreed on a reasonable amount when we divorced in Arkansas. I was on the hook for all out of pocket medical expenses, which was BS. More times than once when my son was home for the weekend he would need this or that, that even though his mom worked she couldn’t at least in a timely manner buy him.

The thing that pisses me off about it is having to pay the state of Arkansas a 36$ “maintenance fee” every year. That should have been split 50/50 or she should have paid it, but neither here nor there it is over now and he lives with me and going to college. So it’s a win!