A sweeping package of bills being considered by the General Assembly would change how child support payments are determined by Maryland courts.
The legislation would affect “hundreds of thousands” of people who depend on the child support system when parents split up and must reach agreements on custody, visitation and how to split the costs of the children they share, House Majority Leader Del. Kathleen Dumais said.
Among the proposals, courts could consider whether a parent has an ability to earn a paycheck and makes enough money to live on when writing child support orders. The bills also would update a formula to determine how much a separated parent pays to reflect how much it costs to raise a child.
The handful of bills, heard this week by House and Senate committees that are expected to vote in the coming days, were recommended by a work group made up of child advocates, family law attorneys and public stakeholders.
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I can't say if this is good or bad, but I can tell you, they are right, As a father looking from the outside in, The system does favor women over men in all cases unless the woman is a dead beat or drug addict... The courts always takes more than needed, and what I mean by that is, they take more than the kid needs to live on, and in turn you are paying for your child to live and the mother, which is unfair... Then the most unfair part about all of this is, how the woman can always within a few years have the rates increased, but when the father loses his job or doesn't make enough to cover the support, they can never get the rate lowered, then when you can't afford the support, you get blacklisted with your license, where you can't get a job and ultimately end up in jail, now how does going to jail help the child or the father???? Keep in mind while your in jail for not being able to pay support, your support is still raising in what you owe and you will be right back in jail if you can even get out... A lot of women use support as a weapon and that is not right either... There should be an option to put all of the money in a trust or an account only the child can touch when they get of age... To combat woman who use this as a weapon and so fathers are not paying for the child and the mother to live... The fathers responsibility is not to support the mother too... Then what about when they take to much and you can't even afford a nice place to live??? That is how it truly works, they take more than needed, so you can support the mom and child while you have no place to sleep or a car to drive, but no one cares and when you can't pay that support payment becasue of how little you make, and how much they take, everyone wants to demonize you and call you a dead beat dad when it is the circle of fuck they are stuck in... Because that is what support is, a circle of fuck... You can't get out once your in... And it has nothing to do with age anymore, it has to do with schooling, so if your kid is a dumb-ass and fails school, and has to be in school longer, you will be paying child support longer...
Court ordered child support missed payment will trigger a circuit court warrant for arrest and suspension of driving privileges... If a womens wants a abortion the biological father has no say in the decision under law. If the woman chooses to give birth the man must pay child support and more for 18 years or lose his freedom... however it is a mans world, right ?
915 & 919 - You're both so right. I lived through a lot of those scenarios. The mother could afford new hardwood floors, new vehicles, a library of over 400+ movies & video games, and whatever else she wanted. All the while I'm scraping for my next half tank of gas.
9:15am. I agree except one part..either party can file after 3 years for a change OR if there is a "significant" change in income (which I THINK is 15%), then either party can file before the three years is done. My ex got laid off and asked me to redo the figures for him. If he wants them reconfigured then he will have to do that. I am his ex-wife, not his secretary. So if your income goes down please just rerun the figures. The tools are right online. You have nothing to lose.
if you don't want to have to worry about the cost of raising YOUR child - its simple - STOP HAVING BABIES!!
If you don't want to be concerned with the cost of raising YOUR child that you created and brought into this world - protect yourself and STOP having children you aren't willing to financially support - problem solved
I give a father a job. In a few weeks child support finds out where he works. I then get a court order to make child support deductions out of his paycheck. He works a few more weeks until he sees he can not live on what is left. At that point he quits.
10:19- Dude, don't be stupid.
10:22- Same goes for you. Don't be stupid.
1019/1022 - reread my comment (1008). First off, I wasn't supporting my child, I was supporting my ex's thrills. Secondly, there's supposed to be trust in a lengthy relationship. My ex was on the pill, then I was told, "oops, I forgot to tell you I went off of it. Btw..." Third, men generally don't mind the supporting, it's the excessive stupidity. If we can live on dimes, we can't give you quarters.
"So Mr. Doe, you earn 1200 a month and your living costs come to 1100? Alrighty, your child support per month will be 800. Good luck."
Some men are not honorable and deserve whatever they get. If you are man enough to father a child, be man enough to support it fairly without putting the child's mother through hell to get anything from you.
I will say this. I am a father who is SUPPOSED to get child support from my kids mom Which is bare bones minimum. Less than 225 a month. court defined by the way Has not paid anything in almost 2 years. They do nothing about it if it were a guy They would be in jail and have to pay 4 times that amount. I asked why she does t have to pay to child support enforceme by and I get no answers besides she will pay when she pays. I'll tell you It's a fair process here right?
As a father and someone who came from divorced home as child, the system is totally stacked against men. In most cases, it is the women that decidea to leave the man and the man not only loses his children, but is left to pay child support and even in some cases tuition assistance when their child decides to go to college.
I've seen it from both sides, and what they fail to realize is that the father has to live too. He still has to pay for housing and expenses. In most cases, like my father, he will usually have to look for a part time job because of the child support, which also makes it hard for him to see his children. This it more difficult for the children involved as well because they are used as pawns and the court system treats the father as a criminal.
If the father is unable to make his child support payments, he is put in prison, which also means he loses his job and means of support.
If you want to know why so many men have decided to never get married or have a family, this is the reason. It too easy to get a divorce and split up a family, and there are some women out there who purposely get pregnant for the purpose of child support as a way to increasing their income.
I have preached to both my son's the importance and reasons for no sex before marriage and god forbid this does happen, never trust a woman when they say they have protection. Always bring a "raincoat" with you at all times!
Until laws change, I think you will see more and more men dropping out of the dating scene and going their own way. MGTOW!!!
The response is zero population growth in the western world!!!
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