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[–] Canada_is_gay ago 

Oh I agree. I was making roughly $130k/yr when I got divorced. It was a temporary situation where I was getting a large bonus for spending a lot of time out of the country during a project that had a definite end (and thus no more bonus). As a result she got the 80 share (cause I was often working out of the country), which upped her child support, and she got child support (roughly $1500/mo for one child) based off the $130k and her doing nothing. The project ended and I wanted a 50-50 with me then being back in the States full time, and a reduction to reflect my reduced income with no overseas bonus.

They wouldn't change custody share because that's "what the child was used to" (as though it would be some crime to have a boy stay with his father more frequently), and they reduced my child support by about $200/mo vs a well over $2000/mo bonus loss for me and stipulated that if I get another bonus situation I legally have to report it. Meanwhile, it's been several years and she still has no job and no one cares.

It's all bullshit.

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[–] 13448151? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If there is a requirement to use a percentage, it should automatically come out of every check from both parties at that percentage as a type of garnishment. No dollar amount, just a percentage AFTER taxes and any insurance that covers the kids. Also, both parties should be required to pay. If the custodial parent does not for a period of time they lose primary custody. The bullshit has to stop and the only way is to make everyone responsible for the kids.

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[–] Canada_is_gay ago  (edited ago)

That sounds good to me. I'd add parents that claim, "I'm stay at home and have no income," during the divorce have to be forced to go get a job. I'm all for a a traditional model of a stay at home parent. But that model relies on a traditional family. You can't use the other parent as a source of income because you don't want to work. If you don't work you're irresponsible and a bad role model and the other parent gets custody.

I'd also add I definitely agree on taxes, and cost of living needs to be factored as well. If one parent is living in say, suburban Texas, and the other in NYC, cost of living and taxes is a ridiculously huge swing. Do they factor that? Not really in the current.