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Someone explain this to me.
My brother-in-law pays child support. At least 40% of every paycheck is withdrawn before he sees it, and after that he contributes additional money to private school tuition. He is paying child support, back child support, and then the tuition, plus anything he spends during the one weekend per month he's allowed to see them.
For many months he was unemployed (hence the back child support), but now he has a pretty great job that pays him based on effort with bonuses for the performance of the team he manages. (He's been promoted twice and makes the max bonus on every assignment, but due to child support he's still on food stamps.) One thing that isn't working is that his pay varies from week to week, so some weeks he doesn't have enough money for the state to withhold the full amount - but he always settles up by the next check.
He's just been informed that this "doesn't work." He has been given two options - give up all custody rights or go to jail for 8 years for evading child support.
I get that dead beat dads are an issue, but if this is how the system treats men who *are* paying, what the hell is the point of trying to do the right thing?
My brother-in-law pays child support. At least 40% of every paycheck is withdrawn before he sees it, and after that he contributes additional money to private school tuition. He is paying child support, back child support, and then the tuition, plus anything he spends during the one weekend per month he's allowed to see them.
For many months he was unemployed (hence the back child support), but now he has a pretty great job that pays him based on effort with bonuses for the performance of the team he manages. (He's been promoted twice and makes the max bonus on every assignment, but due to child support he's still on food stamps.) One thing that isn't working is that his pay varies from week to week, so some weeks he doesn't have enough money for the state to withhold the full amount - but he always settles up by the next check.
He's just been informed that this "doesn't work." He has been given two options - give up all custody rights or go to jail for 8 years for evading child support.
I get that dead beat dads are an issue, but if this is how the system treats men who *are* paying, what the hell is the point of trying to do the right thing?