Why are child support laws unfair to men?

Answer 1

It depends on where you live. In Australia, child support (known as MAINTENANCE) is paid at a percentage of non taxable income (just above net income). This is paid by whichever pareent does NOT have RESIDENCY of the child. Here CUSTODY refers to whatever parent/s have responsibility for the child's life (schooling, religion, welfare everything a parent normally does). Generally, both parents have shared CUSTODY and alternating RESIDENCY from 0:100 to 50:50. There is also a Governmental child assistance payment which is linked to the RESIDENTIAL patent's income and goes up or down according to what they earn. Here it is pretty fair. MAINTENANCE is not in any way linked to ACCESS or CUSTODY, a paying parent can also ruduce their payments by agreement or through other recognised financial assistance such as School fees, mortgage assistance, car or loan repayments etc. If the RESIDENTIAL parent moves away with the child, the paying parent can ruduce MAINTENANCE further due to the cost in ACCESS. What is usually unfair is the division of assets. Both personal and professional experience have shown that one parent may end up with 110% of assest and the other parent with -10%. This occurs when one parent hide superannuation money or other funds or makes a claim against funds which were not part of the relationship such as prior earnings. What is also unfair, it is generally assumed in Victoria, Australia that men cause the majority of violence in relationships. The opposite is the case here (professional facts and figures). More men are assaulted by women, however the men rarely make formal complaints. This is also reflected in culture where advertisements show women assaulting men (minor strike with rolling pin or verbal aggression). However laws are in place prohibiting advertisements where a man assaults, berates, yells at etc a woman.