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- Subject: Re: Back Again To (Un)Father - NOT!
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- References: <1992Dec30.040142.20381@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec30.151008.16056@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 11:32:08 CST
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- In article <1992Dec30.151008.16056@ll.mit.edu>
- x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave) writes:
-
- > 2) If you believe that women are underpaid and/or underemployed (WRT men),
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >then odds are the actual $$ amout that she would pay him is less than
- >the actual $$ he would pay her, if she had instead exercised her choice
- >to raise the child herself, and sought support from him. (Support is
- >generally a specific fraction of gross income).
-
-
- Your first line is completely gratuitous. Regardless of anyone's beliefs
- concerning women's employment status, the parent who makes the most money
- pays the most support. Say that a man and a woman make 40K/ year and 20K/year
- respectively. Their combined income is 60K. The court will decide that
- ,under normal circumstances, the support of a child requires a certain %
- of that income- let's say 10%, or $6000 a year, or about $500 a month. The
- man is making 2/3s of the combined income, so his 'share' of the support
- is also 2/3s, or ~$335.00. The woman is responsible for the remaining 1/3.
- If the woman supplies a higher share of the combined income than the man,
- she is responsible for the greater share of the child support.
-
- Diane
-