If the support-receiving parent had to show the money was ACTUALLY going to 'support the child', I'd be thrilled. Child-support is generally 'male-thievery'; that is to say, women often get thousands of dollars per year to 'support a kid' bills that are only perhaps half that.
Child support should be this, for one child, for a 100% custodial parent:
Add HALF the amount of the difference between a 1 bedroom place and a 2.
Every other dollar spent should be annotated, with half the total awarded to the custodial parent.
Here's what happens: Woman gets custody, and gets awarded 'child support' to the point the father lives in poverty, while she blows money on nails and hair. (shrug).
Child support audits and record keeping.
I'd also love if a politician had enough guts to throw out 'pay or go to jail' laws.
...but don't get me started....
To quote the poet, Kanye..
18 years, 18 years
She got one of yo' kids, got you for 18 years
I know somebody payin' child support for one of his kids
His baby momma's car crib is bigger than his
You will see him on TV, any given Sunday
Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai
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