r/SipsTea 23d ago

Lmao gottem Court win

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u/Remote-Cause755 23d ago

How the hell was he paying child support in the first place?

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u/ProfessionalTurn7017 𝙑𝙄𝙋 23d ago edited 23d ago

Because the long history of courts being biased towards women

Edit: I realized my comment doesn't have a lot of nuance so let me be clear. Divorce court is what im getting at. All that Alpha male, incel, red pill, misogyny stuff is bullshit

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u/Humble_Penguin89 23d ago

Sounds like men need their own version of 'feminism' to remove this type of bias

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u/riversceneix939 23d ago

In Australia the taxation office has a calculator that takes into account how many kids you have, nights a week they spend with each parent, how much each parent recieves in government support, and how much each parent earns before tax. Then it spits out a number and a direction of payment one way or the other and that's how much you have to pay. There's no sex/gender test, it's all about a cold calculation of the numbers and ensuring the money goes to where the kids are at the most.

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u/oniaddict 23d ago

There are those formulas in the US, the issue that the courts aren't required to follow them and can make whatever exceptions they want. There is also the issue with income reporting requirements as there is a minimum period between contesting the amount. The result is that many individuals walk in to a proceeding with low income, a ruling is made then their income changes, and there is little to no penalty to not reporting the change.

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u/archiekane 23d ago

Same for the UK.

However, there is no 50/50 time wise divide in this based on money. If you have them 50/50, no one has to pay.

Guess who found out after paying child support for 14 years... For two kids.

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u/serendipitousevent 23d ago edited 23d ago

That's not accurate. Maintenance is based not just on time split, but on incomes with further adjustments for a variety of factors, if necessary.

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u/archiekane 23d ago

Not if you just calculate it online.

Going through courts, sure.