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Originally posted by Lenny2
I can't stand it when people whine about child support.
I don't know how it works in other states, but in Louisiana they have a book with tables in it. You add up the gross income of the mother and the father, find that number in the table and it gives you a dollar amount.
If you make 60% of the total combined income, then you're responsible for paying 60% of that dollar amount in child support. Pretty cut and dried.
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do you not see the flaws in that?
Flaw #1: Based on gross income. If NOT paying the IRS is an option, then fine... base it on gross income. Since that's not going to ever happen, the gross income justification is unjust.
Flaw #2: "If you make 60% of the total combined income, then you're responsible for paying 60% of that dollar amount in child support.": When this person was IN THE HOUSE, 60% of the household income was NOT going to the kids. It was going to alot of things. Mortgage, electric, water, auto insurance, etc. Except now that he's out, the kids just got a raise didn't they. 60% straight to the kids.
not cut and dried at all.... flawed.