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Originally posted by AGDee
If my ex-husband had full custody of my kids, I'd be paying him $1000 a month child support and I don't make anywhere near what this guy makes. I really don't understand why you guys have such a problem with a non-custodial parent paying a percentage of their salary in child support.
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Well, I excised the emotional drivel and your anecdotal arguments - but I'd like to point out that no one has trouble with him paying child support, at least that I've heard. You're inserting arguments that aren't there.
I have a significant problem with paying "lifestyle support" for the mother of the child - it's difficult to draw the line, I understand, but exorbitant child support, particularly in situations in which the father is active in the child's life, cannot be justified as anything but. Note that this is why I fully support putting a lump sum each year into a trust for the child to earn at age 18 - this will ensure the child's prospects at college and a comfortable lifestyle until he or she can become a wage-earner him/herself.
If you really want to argue about why the child lives in Saginaw or whatever . . . why does the child live with the mother, period? The father should be awarded custody if the child's life would be markedly better outside the home of a mother without the time for her, and with job prospects capping out at $15/hour, as you put it . . . or was that more emotive hyperbole?