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- Path: sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!lonesome!jsw
- From: jsw@cray.com (Jon S. Wood)
- Subject: Re: Itemized accounting of child support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.171200.13092@walter.cray.com>
- Lines: 47
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lonesome.cray.com
- Reply-To: jsw@cray.com
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <20720206@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:11:58 CST
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- In article 20720206@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM, laszlo@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Laszlo Nobi) writes:
- >> > In article <1993Jan6.122354.6441@desire.wright.edu> sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >
- >
- >> Well, if my foster son's father wants an accounting, I guess I could work
- >> one up pretty quickly.
- >> Let's see, last night I had to drive to town to pick Mike up at the library
- >> where he was working on a book report. It's seven miles one way to town,
- >> then there's wear and tear on the car, then there's my time. I occasionally
- >> do consultant work.... do I charge my consultant fee or my usual work pay?
- >> Also, do I figure in the time I spent at home afterward, checking Mike's
- >> sore throat and administering medicine?
- >
- >It gets real old listening to this nitpicky bullshit. My ex and I just
- >went through looking at the costs incurred by her to support our children.
- >I proved to her by doing this that I was footing the entire bill for their
- >support. She asked me how we should value her contribution as a mother,
- >for being there when they needed her. I asked her how to value my lost
- >time with my kids while they were growing up. She shut up.
- >
- >The point is, many women CHOSE to become the custodial parent. Child
- >support considers, and rightly so, the financial impact of their support.
- >If you chose to do this, then that was your decision. Let's see now, how
- >much should I get for doing all of the driving to and from
- >visitation....about 20 miles one way? How much should I get creditied for
- >the time my kids spend in my house, and eat my food, and all the places I
- >take them, etc. The crap goes on and on........
- >
- >Laszlo
- >
- >>
- >> Sue
- >> >
- >> > --
- >> > [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research merce@iguana.reptiles.org +1 416-506-0654 ]
- >> > [ longer life through colder blood ]
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- I've driven about 8500 miles this year just to visit my children. That is the
- estimated miles JUST to meet them. It does not include anything else,
- like a trip to the movie, zoo or circus etc.
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- My ex finally shut the hell up about costs of being a custodial mother.
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