Also child support was still happening when this was all happening xD

Pretty difficult to fight a court case while also having to pay child support

For context, my mum has kicked me out of home, my dad was in hospital and couldn’t pay it, so I payed for the child support that was meant to me for raising me... the child

System is fucked

That is disgusting, are there no allowances for being *literally physically unable to work*?

A genuinely Kafkaesque nightmare.

Pretty sure there are laws where being in a coma is no excuse for missing support payments

Well, shit. That might just be the best excuse I've ever seen to not get anyone pregnant

Reminds me of seeing this today

What would they even do to someone who's comatose and missing child support payments anyway? Cart his body off to court and then to prison? 😬

Like I realize that's being facetious but how would they even enforce that

Just financially ruin him when he wakes up.

Well there was a guy who was captive in the Middle East, when he was finally released he was arrested as soon as he got home because of overdue child support

So you say you are being facetious but I honestly wouldn’t put that past them xD

That is genuinely awful, imagine the kids being ecstatic just to have their father back from a life threatening situation, and then... boom, he's arrested

Also if you miss one payment ever, no matter the reason, you are actually “legally” labeled as a deadbeat dad for the rest of your life

Which can be held against you in future

In court

Sorry, just curious, what country do you live in? I noticed "mum" so presumably not America

Australia

😃

Child support seems to be unfair no matter the country, it’s just insanity

Australia is actually kind of lucky as it is one of few countries that doesn’t have Alimony

What about the "splitting the property" thing?

Are you sure it's not just called spousal maintenance? That's what it is in the UK

We're essentially the same country after all 😎

Pfft, fucking poms xD

And no, doesn’t exist

And what do you mean by splitting property? You mean like people fighting in courts on who gets to keep the TV?

Or the house

But that's surely different from alimony

It’s just based on the courts rule, each partner makes a case on who has more right to the thing and the court decides who gets it

Seems reasonable on the surface

Well my dad lost the hose he paid for because mother needed it to raise us kinds that he now had no rights to.

Yet he absolutely had "rights" to pay child support for kids he couldn't see... 😬

The system is so wacky

Yeah, pretty much

As I said "on the surface". The devil is in the detail and systemic discrimination

I didn’t know my dad growing up, and my mum has convinced us he was a bad person for many years

Older we got to see him about once a year

But then didn’t seem him for about 3 years and it was because my mum had accused him is sexually assisting me