Message from @Abbysol
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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
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
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
When she kicked me out of home by dad came and got me, so we could be homeless together
No one thought to confirm or deny that with you?