Child Support What is it?
Child support is for the financial care of a child or children, wither child support has come from an ended marriage, or a mother and father that just could not make a relationship work. Child support is never a punishment to whom is paying it. It is for the care of your child. If you were with the child day in and day out, you would be hopefully doing things to help with the child's care, food, clothing, shelter, schooling, etc...you see my point. So child support is a payment for that.
Child support can be split up into several different ways, wither it is paid weekly, lump sum of monthly or however the court systems work it out and also which way the parents see it working best for them. It does extremely bother me when fathers think they should not have to pay child support and can just toss a little cash this way here and there, and think that is enough. HARD working mothers trying to do it all.
Child support is usually based on what a father and a mother make, then payments are set up. Child support is never meant to put one parent or the other in a bind on living.
Reading the forum area this morning it just breaks my heart, and it is a little something we talked about last week, about how some mothers do not appreciate the child support that fathers are paying and always seem to want more, sometimes it truly is out of bitterness towards a split up or divorce, one of the reasons I think seeking counseling is so important. There are a lot of mothers out there fighting just to make it, especially in our economy today and I think if a mother that does have a good father to her children, needs to be very happy and grateful.
If anyone has any child support questions due to their area or things in general, please feel free to ask and I will research the information the best I can, and remember this is a place you can get things off your chest also...I have said it before, we all need somebody.