Do you think CHILD SUPPORT should be used to pay house payments, household

@lynninky (491)
United States
March 30, 2007 10:58pm CST
bill, remodeling payments after the custodial parent gets remarried ? If so why ? Why should that child have to pay any bills in a household with to parents ? Just like everyone tell women who marry guys paying child support. You knew he had a childw/child support responsiblities. RIGHT ? Well these men who marry women with one or more children should they have help with household payments/bills ? WHY ? Should he or/and his new wife/girlfriend not have to pay for their own house and household bills ? Why should that childs money go for household bills ? That money should help the kids and the mother with bills but once she decides to get remarried that should stop. Yes use the money to buy the food that the kid/kids want that the parents don't eat. Every now and then if a big happens and you need extra money it would be find to use it in a have to case but not to give a man a free ride in life..So many women do this today. Why do women let some men use them ? I feel, If he can't support you without a childs support you do not need him. keep looking!! Here is a real life example : This lady that lives in our area. Gets $950.00 A month for one child. Her ex husband got sick so he was not getting paid. She stopped getting child support.After two weeks she was going to her lawyer everyday wanting to know where her money is and how could she get him to hurry out of the hospital . She was working, getting $950.00 child support , getting a free lawyer. The free lawyer told to to just wait until he got out of the hospital and they would contact him. She and her new husband got mad about that. So the new husband told her to go paid a lawyer to get things started. When she talked to the lawyer she never said that the child needed anything, all she said was I am getting behind on my remodeling payment. The worker are not going to come back if I do not give them something. So the lawyer ask is the child someway costing you $950.00 a month ? She replied no why ? Is it hos room you are remodeling ? No, we are just doing the livingroom, kitchen ,bathroom, and my bedroom. Plus the outside of the house. So the lawyer told her he could not do anything more than what the child support office could do. She replied yes but like my husband said this way he will have to pay you too. She and her new husband was so mad they they got out and ran their mouth to everyone. While doing so they let it slip that they wanted to get the house remodeled before the child turned 18. That way in four years at $367.88 it would be paid for in full. Plus they added next year they plan to buy the mother a new car so it will be paid for in the years with the rest of the money. They told that they would have to thank child support services for the step fathers new truck that will be paid for next year, his and her new 4 wheelers, the child has a old 4 wheeler, that breaks down all the time, plus everything they are buying and will buy in the next four years. He has told single men to find a women that is getting child support then push her to push for every dime she can get. The child wears wrangler jeans when anything always happens to the name brand cloths his dad buys for him. Wal mart /K mart shoes, he is not in any sports, groups, clubs. All he does is go to school come home and ride that broken down 4 wheeler. Never gets to go on vacation with his mother and stepfather.School by day , grandmas until 9:00 P.M. then home, to grandmas every Friday evening until Monday evening at 9:00 P.M....I am sorry but for my thinking he should be dressed as good as the others at his school, they should take him on at least one vacation... Child support is a great thing for the kids that benefit from it.Yes he is living, he has clothes, food , a roof over his head..lOOKS LIKE THIS CHILD IS GETTING RIPPED OFF TO ME. IF THEY WHERE GOING TO BUY A NEW CAR LOOKS LIKE THEY WOULD TRY TO GET HIM SOMETHING NEW. ONCE HE IS GONE THAT WOMAN COULD LET HER MAN BUY HER A CAR. DO ALL PARENTS MAKE THEIR CHILD PAY TO LIVE WITH THEM ? DO MOST CHILD WITH TO PAY TO HAVE A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD, FOOD TO EAT ? WHAT MAKES ADULTS BECOME HELPLESS IN TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN NEEDS AND WANTS ? I WOULD SAY BECOMING SICK/DISABLED. I NEVER KNEW THAT HAVING A CHILD WAS SUCH A HANDICAP OR SOME PEOPLE MAKE IT INTO A CRUTCH. EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO WORK .THEY CAN'T PAY BILLS BECAUSE THEY ARE LIVING TO HIGH SO I WILL JUST TAKE THE CHILD SUPPORT USE IT. HAS ANYONE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT HELPING SAVE FOR COLLEGE, OR A TRADE SCHOOL ? GOOD GOD I KNOW IT IS FREE MONEY TAX FREE MONEY BUT IT'S FOR YOUR CHILD. WHEN THAT CHILD SCHOOL CALLS TO SAY KIDS FOR PICKING ON HIM BECAUSE OF HIS CLOTHES THAT REMODELED HOUSE DOES MEAN A THING TO HIM...CHILD SUPPORT LAWS SUCK !! THANK GOD THERE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WORKING HARD TO CHANGE THEM. SO THAT THE SUPPORT MONEY WILL BE SPEND ONLY ON THE CHILD ,HIS STUFF, HIS FOOD, AFTER THE CUSTODIAL PARENTS GETS REMARRIED.. I FOR ONE CAN NOT WAIT !!!
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7 responses
• United States
15 Jun 07
I understand what u are saying BUT take my situation for instance.... I am a single mom of 3 (I only get support from 1 child.) My youngest is a special needs chld and I havent been able to hold a job for 2 years now due to her being in and out of the hospital. So the only way I can pay our bills are with her disability and my oldests child support. Now dont get me wrong I do try and save a lil to get the kids a treat here and there but most of it has to go for bills. In a perfect world I would beable to put some back for him to go to school and have whatever he needs/wants, but then how fair would that be to the other 2 whose dads dont care??
@marinarovi (1318)
• Argentina
10 Jun 07
I don't think that you're making the kid pay for house bills, it's just that the other parent is giving some money for the kid to live in a better environment. It's not always about buying the kid the greatest newest tennis shoes or whatever, but to garantee that he has a proper way of living. I think parent's support should include som money savings for university as well. No child support laws in any country are ever good enough. But we should all think a little more about these kind os subjects.
@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
11 May 07
Child support is for the parent and the child. Child support goes on rent, bills and all that, even if the parent is re-married. It's the law and it wont ever change. This is how things work.
@chippy49 (171)
• United States
10 Jun 07
I feel for you my friend. My husbands ex has put my husband and I in Debt of over 50,000.00 we do not get to see his daughter because of alot of reasons but one is we cannot afford a plane ticket and two I am certain the ex will make her miss the fight so that we will have to send another plane ticket at our expense. I myself am against this child support BS. We tried getting custody of his daughter...his daughter wanted to stay in TX with her mother so we lost. His daughter is malnurished and uneducated (she is failing, she is 17 and a freshman in HS) but the courts do not see this. But we have to give the ex money. When we get to talk to the daughter, she says can you buy me some underwear and send it to me...where is the 450 a month I am sending your mother going towards? I could go on and on....Thank you for your post...we need more people who are on this side of the fence and are going through it, instead of the ones that say....its to raise your child....yeah whatever...walk in my shoes and your tune will change.....
@okn0tok (569)
• United States
11 May 07
Wow with the caps. Look if its child support it supports the children, as long as it is used for that purpose. They should NOT however remodel a house with it, but how do you know for sure they did? Can you remodel a home off a child support payment? Did they take a loan to remodel? Some people say things... to be jerks but it doesn't make it true. Be sure its fact before you get so upset and are sure of this. IF you have concerns that is it not being used to meet child's basic needs you can report it and it will be investigated.
• United States
7 May 07
I don't think it should matter where the money goes. As long as the kids have what they need. I was a single mom for 5 years with two kids and never seen a dime of child support. I have since remarried and he takes care of all of us by choice. I personally would not use it for remodeling our house or anything like that because we can take care of it ourself but I would use it for my kids as extra money or in the bank in a savings for them.
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
6 May 07
Child support is surpose to be used to supply the things in which the child needs. A child needs an education, a good roof over their heads, food in which they are able to eat, and clothing for them to wear. It also means providing the child with medical care. How much is spent on household bills from child support should be the childs portion. If four people live in the home, whether it be two adults and two children or that it be one adult and three children, then a fourth of the household cost should go into paying the bills.