{"id":29061,"date":"2020-11-13T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=29061"},"modified":"2020-11-07T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T21:56:36","slug":"as-american-as-apple-pie-child-support-litigation-regarding-children-age-34-39-and-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/as-american-as-apple-pie-child-support-litigation-regarding-children-age-34-39-and-42\/","title":{"rendered":"As American as Apple Pie: child support litigation regarding children age 34, 39, and 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/my-husband-is-paying-10000-of-20677-child-support-arrears-he-wants-me-to-give-it-all-to-my-adult-children-should-i-do-that-2020-11-06\">all-American story from MarketWatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My children\u2019s father recently pledged to pay $10,000 of $20,677 in child-support arrears. &#8230; he said divide it between our three adult children. <strong>Our adult children are 42, 39, and 34 years old<\/strong>. &#8230; If I actually receive these funds as arrears, I plan on giving about half to my children and keeping the rest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advice columnist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You obviously kept on the case to ensure the father of your children made recompense, and I applaud you for never giving up on that. &#8230; Children only need one good parent to love and support them, and I am sure they have benefited from having you.<\/p><p>Splitting the support 50\/50 is generous, perhaps more than generous, even if you were not still helping out your children. This money is designed to compensate YOU. The fact that your ex does not want the money to go to you suggests that he is too big for his breeches, even after all these years. This is YOUR money. &#8230; You clearly made many sacrifices in your life to raise three children. YOU deserve every last red cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above dispute was under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/Texas\">Texas family law<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that the situation can be similar in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/Canada\">the utopia to our north<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Canada&#8217;s child support system seems to sow discord among Canadians. We interviewed a professor at one of Canada&#8217;s top universities. She said that it irked her that her partner paid four times as much in child support to his ex-wife as she was paid for full-time employment as a PhD researcher and teacher. We interviewed a man in his 20s who said that the system via which adult child support was paid to a parent has caused friction between himself and his mother. <strong>&#8220;I was graduated from college, working, and living in my own apartment,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;She was getting $750 per month in child support from my dad for me. I would ask her why it shouldn&#8217;t be paid to me.&#8221;<\/strong> What was she doing with the money? &#8220;She retired from her job in the software industry and was doing a lot of international vacation travel.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am not sure that the Canadians can keep the fight going when the &#8220;child&#8221; is 42!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all-American story from MarketWatch: My children\u2019s father recently pledged to pay $10,000 of $20,677 in child-support arrears. &#8230; he said divide it between our three adult children. 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