Posted on Aug 14, 2018
How would you feel about a law requiring parents receiving child support to provide documentation of how it’s being spent?
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I think it's a dumb idea. Besides the easily recognized requirement of school clothes, shoes, backpacks, etc...do you really want to itemize toilet paper, laundry soap, rice, gasoline, toothpaste, stain remover, electricty, youth sports registration, fruit, bandaids, shampoo, internet access/wifi (because almost all homework is online, now), and the hundreds (probably thousands) of other things that kids need on a daily basis? Oh yeah, whoever is the primary caregiver will have to stay home full time just to document everything. So, you can add alimony to the list. There's a reason it's estimated that it costs $233,610 to raise a child. That's a little over a $1,000 a month per child.
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Document with receipts to the paying spouse maybe. To the government would never work. Heard parents complain their kids don’t have school clothes but the other parent claims to spend property. Always questioned how it could be proved, but probably to complicated.
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Personally I'd like it, but how could you justify that beyond PII, HIPPA, and any other federally mandated regulation? Also how would you get command teams to want to take additional time they don't have now to go over every single troop who is making those payments? Or the troop who is receiving them?
In the Army, we're kinda big on counseling to correct, maintain, and promote. If you're doing all those, AND get saddled with counseling on what is being spent vs what it's spent on, you may as well pull up a cot, have some "ready-made" counseling's with the Magic Bullet at the bottom and your coffee fresh and ready at all times.
If it's just a law that applies to the Nation, I'd like to see it, but now you've burdened the judicial system to the point where noting will get done quickly being the Judges would become the one doing the counseling on paper. Celebrities would LOVE this being who wants to be like Blake Griffin and pay $256k a month for two kids? Does it really cost that much to take care of any child (special needs are different).
In the Army, we're kinda big on counseling to correct, maintain, and promote. If you're doing all those, AND get saddled with counseling on what is being spent vs what it's spent on, you may as well pull up a cot, have some "ready-made" counseling's with the Magic Bullet at the bottom and your coffee fresh and ready at all times.
If it's just a law that applies to the Nation, I'd like to see it, but now you've burdened the judicial system to the point where noting will get done quickly being the Judges would become the one doing the counseling on paper. Celebrities would LOVE this being who wants to be like Blake Griffin and pay $256k a month for two kids? Does it really cost that much to take care of any child (special needs are different).
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - There's no excuse for him not to pay, but that's my personal opinion. The amount he's supposed to pay is low compared to some of the guys I was with. Some of them were geo-bachelors paying for their kids. There is a difference in someone paying child support to take care of the child, vs someone using child support to keep their personal standards and standard of living up. At $256k a month for really young children in Blakes case, you're paying her. She even has a previous child by an athlete and he's(the other child's father) paying pretty good for that child. In Brittany Spears case, she's paying for her kids, plus her ex's kids he had previously. Both celebrities are seen as cash cows to where they're taking advantage of the system, rather than work, and allow the money to go where it's supposed to. I don't know any five yr old's who need anything close to $250k a month unless they're special needs kids. But vacations, a house(s), cars, nannies, plastic surgery? That's not child support, that's the gaining parent using that money on themselves.
The second you hear someone say they need $50k a month to take care of the child, that should ring alarm bells in any court as to what are you basing your numbers off past the fact of having a child by a celebrity or athlete? How much are YOU using compared to the actual amount the child needs? In cases like this, I see no reason why the courts shouldn't have a law that outlines exactly what is needed, and the courts go line by line to ensure that you're not using their money as your personal cash cow.
It's extremely burdensome on the courts to even have something like this, and to have to keep up with the constant changes it would entail would just tax the hell out of an overtaxed judicial system.
The second you hear someone say they need $50k a month to take care of the child, that should ring alarm bells in any court as to what are you basing your numbers off past the fact of having a child by a celebrity or athlete? How much are YOU using compared to the actual amount the child needs? In cases like this, I see no reason why the courts shouldn't have a law that outlines exactly what is needed, and the courts go line by line to ensure that you're not using their money as your personal cash cow.
It's extremely burdensome on the courts to even have something like this, and to have to keep up with the constant changes it would entail would just tax the hell out of an overtaxed judicial system.
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