2006-07-03 02:01:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
part of being a good father is helping to support your child.
2006-07-03 02:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by cwoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Child support is used to suppliment your ex's income in a similar manner to where it would be if you still lived with her (or if you ever had lived with her). The idea behind it is that children are expensive, and a two income family has an increased ability to support a child (or children). If your child's mother has custody (or is the residential parent in a shared parenting agreement), then you will be responsible for child support. If you have custody, then no, she cannot file for support. If there is question as to what she plans to do, I suggest that you not give her any money directly (because anything that you give her without an order in place will be considered a gift and will not count towards your ultimate support), contact the department of job and family services and try to assertain what your payments could be, and prepare yourself to start out in the hole with child support. Almost all support is retroactive, meaning that on the date that it is ordered, it is ordered back to when you split up, moved out, or if you were never together, on the date the child was born.
Hope this helps.
K
2006-07-03 11:12:26 · answer #2 · answered by ktina5672 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does one have to do with the other? A good father would not hesitate to provide support for their child. Why don't you go for primary custody and ask her for child support?
2006-07-03 09:09:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she has more than 50% custody of the child, yes. Being a good father alone doesn't make it fair. If she is supporting your child more than 50% of the time, she deserves contribution to help take care of him/her.
2006-07-03 09:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by casey_leftwich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not paying child support she is suppose to. And you are suppose to be paying.
Part of the child custody agreement showing custody, visitation and of course child support is a normal agreement for a couple with a child not living together.
So of course you should as a good father be glad to pay your reasonable amount.
2006-07-03 11:12:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to pay child support whether you are a good or bad father.
2006-07-03 09:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a good father to your child means helping provide for her needs financially.
2006-07-03 09:06:05 · answer #7 · answered by survivor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not being financially responsible to your child, you are not being a good father. Get a job and provide for your child or you WILL end up in jail and have no license.
2006-07-03 09:06:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant be a good father unless you support your child.
2006-07-03 09:47:35 · answer #9 · answered by janikal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you were a good father you would want to pay child support and not neglect your child . It took two of you to make the child . think of it this way ...should dhe say dhe is a good maother so why should she have to pay the daily support for the kids ?
2006-07-03 09:08:09 · answer #10 · answered by HAPA CHIC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋