CASE LAWS in OHIO re Child support calculations!?
I am a journeyman lineman (I erect high voltage power lines). This job requires me to travel to the location where work is at. Because of the bad economy, and lack of work, I have had to travel up to 7 or 8 hours away from my home just to maintain my home & keep up w/ my child support. I am responsible for all of my expenses (hotel, gas, food, NYS tolls, etc.). I have to take approx. $500 per week from my NET pay, to turn around and go back to work. Child support recently did a review and changed my amount to approx. $1000 per child per month based on my gross. I have 2 kids, So that it almost 2K. I appealed it, because I am responsilbe for all of my own expenses. I am not a business owner so I can’t claim self employment. The magistrate won’t take into consideration that I have to pay all of these expenses. How is the law fair? If I don’t work, my child support goes into arrears. I am not trying to get out paying my support. I have always paid my support. I claim on my IRS returns every year all the expenses I incur yet the courts won’t deduct that from my gross pay, So I have to pay $500 a week in support, plus $500 to get back to work to pay keep up. And when all is said and done, I am left with $150 a week to support my current wife and family. Is there anyone out there that can guide me on how to change the case laws in Ohio. The laws are just not fair. They are predjudiced against the ffathers.
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:52 am
It is NOT fair, yet this is all you ever hear from libs. They want more and more and more. The responsible person is used, abused, picked on, spit on, etc. while the welfare jerks lay around yelling for more. Liberal judges will make it so tough on you to the point that you will crack, forget your responsibilities, and slide into a welfare, dependant, citizen, or in jail. The perfect candidate for Liberalism!!
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:30 am
There is a very slim chance to beat the system or even come up even for a male in of all places, The only way to be able to have a life is take your kids and head for South America. Our system sucks and is anti Male. By the way, it isn’t the Liberal Judges, out system is packed full of Republican Judges from the Bush era. Idaho is a Religious state and that means Conservative.
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:55 am
OK the laws are NOT prejudiced against fathers. You need to get a lawyer to help you out of this mess. You haven’t done the proper paperwork for the magistrate to hear the evidence. And guess what, the courts don’t care if you have another family. They are interested in supporting the children involved in the first action. Their sole interest is to protect the children.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:09 am
You are supposed to finish supporting your first family BEFORE you start a second family as they were your first commitment and priority. And if you can’t support a second family at the same time as your first family, then you have no business starting that second family at all!!!!
You knew you had a family already to support but you went ahead and started a second one anyway. Now you are upset that the courts won’t let you short-change your first family for your second. The courts aren’t taking any pity on your situation because you brought all of this on yourself and the courts will not allow you to forsake/short-change your first set of kids for the children of your second wife!
If you don’t have enough money left over to feed your second wife and children, then you must either get a second job or your second wife is going to have to go to work to support herself and her kids. Is this hard on your second wife? Probably BUT she knew in advance that she was marrying a man who already had kids to support. Since she knowingly walked into this situation, she isn’t an innocent victim and the law says she must support her kids if you cannot!
I know you think that none of this is fair to you and your second wife and kids but do you think it is fair that your second family has everything while your first goes without? And the laws aren’t prejudiced against fathers. Are you at home every night with your first set of kids or with your second? Do you get up at night when your first lot of kids have nightmares or are sick? Do you stay home from work when your first lot of kids are sick? Do you supervise the homework of your first lot of kids and play with them? Whose kids do you tuck into bed? You aren’t doing any of the day-to-day physical care of your first set of kids so you had better man up and at least pay for part of their financial care!
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:41 am
You need to appeal it, you also need to keep receipts and get a note from your employer that states you are responsible for these expenses to be able to retain your job. Now, you also need to have them take into consideration your wife and any other children of your own in your care etc. My husbands pays and has work related expenses like weekly bills for tools he is required to have to maintain his job. Also, a judge is supposed to take into consideration travel expenses if you have to work a certain distance from your home and if you are unable to relocate closer etc. I would continue to pay what you can even if it is not the full amount, but I would also continue to appeal this case. It isn’t fair or right for you to have more going out in child support then what you have left to maintain your home and family. Men do get screwed hard, my husband was one of them for a long time, but keep fighting and eventually you will get where you need to be. Maybe you need to find another employment that will also keep you closer to home without all those big expenses. Once you change jobs you would file to have your amount modified and then once it is you should be granted a credit for whatever the extra amount you paid towards child support.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:12 am
First, your complaint should be that they are prejudiced against the non custodial parent, as not only fathers pay child support. Second, where was your lawyer in these calculations? He should have argued your case, as it sounds like you have a solid one. I would address this with an attorney. There are also numerous father’s rights groups out there that can help you with this situation. Google fathers rights groups. They’ll be more helpful than most of the people here.