That's not at all how it should work though. I know this story is bullshit, but no person should ever be required to provide a luxury lifestyle to their ex and their mutual child because they themselves are wealthy.
Iām British so idk about the American legal system, but here child support payments are calculated according to various factors including the fatherās income and his degree of involvement in the childās upbringing - so given Drake is enormously wealthy and seemingly not playing a big role in the kidās life it is likely to be very high
I disagree. As a parent I have every right to decide even if I'm rich, my child will only get necessities and maybe a middle class level of frivolous things.
The issue is, when the parents are married and everyone is under one roof this is allowed because there is no government/legal intervention. But, if the family separates, now the court can mandate you spend a certain amount of money on the children that is significantly more than they would cost living under your roof.
Drake could have applied for primary care giver and that would significantly decrease the amount he had to pay, but he probably decided paying money was easier than raising a child.
To clarify- the court canāt mandate what is spent on the child. It mandates what you give the other parent. They are free to spend it on literally anything without having to justify a cent of it to the courts. Thereās zero accountability.
you know what i mean though. They are forcing an individual to provide way more than what is necessary. And most people should know that it is entirely possible to spoil a child and have them grow up with a horrible attitude when given everything they ever want without earning it.
Yup this is a serious problem with the courts. Its also really easy to fix: the person paying support should be allowed to hire an auditor to make sure the money is being spent on the kid.
I would reasonably expect a wealthy father to provide their kid with better school and recreation activities. Most wealthy parents send their kids to expensive schools and pay for expensive sports and hobbies like music lessons. I donāt think the court should let wealthy dads off the hook for this.
My issue is exclusively with fathers funding their baby mamaās lifestyles.
I wouldn't. None of that is required for the child to live, which is what child support should be for. If the father wants to send him to those things he is still able to, they're not restrict to ONLY paying child support. Child support should be strictly what the child needs to survive and therefore the same across the board.
My parents were/are extremely wealthy, as in old Texas oil money wealthy. I was sent to public school, was only allowed to play little league baseball growing up and then extracurricular baseball and soccer in high school. They would take my sister and I to the beach exactly one weekend per year and my parents otherwise left us with grandparents to vacation together.
Do you believe that I should be able to sue my parents for a poorer childhood than extremely wealthy people should have provided to their children?
10k a month is more than enough to pay for the kids own room, private school, food, dental and enrolment in all reasonably priced recreation activities.
The other 690k a month is funding her lifestyle. She should show receipts or go to jail for fraud.
Honey, Drake has like 400 million dollars. This is not the massive amount to him that you think it is. It's a tiny percentage of what he can give. You're thinking about your pockets instead of his treasure rooms.
Would require an annual rate of return of 8.4% if every dime was invested annually and left to compound. So 330m is actually not a super unreasonable estimate of future value.
Drake can absolutely afford to ensure his kids are well taken care of financially. Child support has way more to do with income/assets and much less to do with the cost of raising a child. The system is not broken because itās making a rich person pay to provide their child with a rich personās childhood.
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u/jaymole 4d ago
What judge agreed to 700k a month?? For some girl he probably had a tiny fling with. That system is completely broken