A Beautiful and to the Point Letter
Reprint - Letter to the Editor, The Trinitonian, April
22, 2005, San Antonio, Texas
Dear
Editor,
Your April 15 article, “Former rushing champ pays for child,”
said that Ricky Williams, former
running back for the Miami Dolphins,
was ordered to pay $4,200 per
month in child support for his
son.
If my math is correct, this will equal $50,400 per year.
Also, if my math is correct,
according to calculations from
the 2004 US Department of Health
and Social Services*,
this is approximately the poverty
level for a family of 10 in
Hawaii, where the mother chooses
to reside.
Certainly both parents should support their child. But it
is figures like these that show
the Child Support Industry is
totally out of whack. The concept
of 50/50 shared parenting would
bring a much needed dose of
realism to a misandric legislative
and judicial system.
Justice for fathers is not found in family courts; this must
change.
Don
Mathis
Most of us
agree that the child support
system is very wrong. Take for
instance my case when I got
divorced. If $20,000.00 of the
ex's income is to go towards
day care, well then my judge
gave her another $20,000.00
on top of that. Basically my
ex is not supporting my children,
all she is doing is letting
them sleep in the house. My
income is roughly 750.00 before
taxes. Of that I must pay $334
per week for child support.
Another 75.00 per week for day
care. and if my children go
to camp in the summer which
they do, I must pay an additional
1/3 for the cost of the camp.
which this year it came to 3200.00.
then I must pay 1500.00 (500
per child) in clothing allowance
on September 1st and December
1st. Oh and the house that we
owned together, when she sold
it. I had to pay not only for
my divorce lawyer, but hers
as well, and she was the one
who wanted the divorce. All
this the judge gave her because
he once practiced law in the
same firm as her lawyer. But
you figure out the math. I am
forced to live on a meager existence
of around 75 dollars a week.
Thank god I have a girl
friend.
Fathers are carrying the entire
financial burden of children and
more. This is NOT equal rights
for women!
Elmer Stratton
<ebstratton@comcast.net>
wrote:
Disabled
for the last year, unable
to get a doctor to clear me
for work, a year of no income
and finally getting disability
of 846 dollars a month.
So this puts me behind about
6, 000 dollars in support,
the mother and her lawyer
id demanding 1,000 dollars
by Tuesday or they will ask
the judge for jail time.
I made the mistake last month
of borrowing 1,000 dollars,
but now there isn’t
any way I can come up with
any money, most of my family
know it would be next to impossible
to repay, But the mother thinks
30 days in jail will produce
1,000 dollars.
I’m really thinking of not going
to court Tuesday, so I can spend
the holidays with my family,
but couldn’t with my youngest,
because the mother would have
me arrested.
Not in the next few weeks
my 5 year old will have her
tonsils removed, and there
is no way I can help her through
this.
It would be nice if all available
people could protest the court,
mother and her attorney, because
I feel they would be right
if I was eligible to go to
work, but I’m not.
People often say you can’t
get blood from a stone, but
the court will surely try,
Also finally after 8 month my motion to modify will be heard
but not before going up about
3,500 dollars, no way can
I believe the court will agree
to it retroactive.
Elmer
ebstratton@comcast.net
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