Comments on: New Column: Hillary Clinton Proposes Reforming Child Support System to Help Dads

By: willsha

willsha — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:22 +0000

my son is 34yrs old and well able to support himself they are still making me pay over $153.000 in arrears which is more than 90% interest i am remarried an i divorced my ex 15 yrs ago with nothing asked for in that divorce i have been paying spousal support for more than 20 yrs they say i owe her $97,000 & my wages are garnished for that plus my income tax returns have been taken for the past 20 yrs. i don’t think this is fair to my current wife we struggle all the time to survive i’m 54 yrs old my current wife is now 67 yrs. old & just retired this has caused her not to be able to save for her retirement /also i am not allowed to have a bank account,cedit cards,or drivers license,or passport. when does it end or does it ever. someone please help.

By: tonio64

tonio64 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:07:01 +0000

Since the child support law has been modified sorry to say their is no difference. It,s just a bunch of bull. They tell you that it’s determind on both incomes but so not true. 50% of my pay is 50% no matter if the mother is a millionair. Who can really afford to live giving 50% of their take home pay. What wealthy white guy out their is determining what it takes to provide for kids. No woman want a guy that has to give 50% of his pay in todays world, and how can a guy ever have a family other than with his kids mother(he cant take care of them). I’ve always believed that the system, as for as child support recovery and the law that supports it is holding african american men down and making african american women lazy and against one another. My mother never recieved any support from my father or my sister’s father. Not that its to praise her for raising her kids,even financially on her own but she just bought her second house and that say’s a lot. The money she made she worked for it so she respect it more. Woman today; a lot of them. recieve child support and will never accomplish what real african american women have before them. I never seen my mother in a nail shop when I was younger. Never the club, no drinks, cigs, or expensive clothes or a fancey car. But know she get what ever she want. I ask her a long time ago why I didnt get any support and she told me she could do it herself.
Men take care of your kids and women stop being lazy. your kids are not a check, they need a father as well.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:51:30 +0000

Any Help can not come soon enough. My Son has been paying child support faithfully, doesn’t
have custody at this time. He is going to court to try and get shared legal & physical
custody. He has to live at home & doesn’t even have enough money left from his paycheck to pay his bills. In the meantime his ex lives
basically rent free, shops frequently for herself and gets things for their daughter at a 2nd hand store. She also calls off work frequently.

By: Tee

Tee — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:33:17 +0000

good to see somebody speeking of this issue. not all men on child support are deadbeat. and its not fair to punish ones that do pay their child support.