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I think $4k a month isn't overboard for 3 teenage boys, especially if you factor in school & health care. As for the Alimony, it depends, if the wife had stayed

by cjbos 17y ago

I think $4k a month isn't overboard for 3 teenage boys, especially if you factor in school & health care. As for the Alimony, it depends, if the wife had stayed at home for the past 21 years to raise the children and has no skills/experience to fall back on to support them herself, then yeah, he needs to support her as well as pay the full cost of raising his sons.

Notorious_PWN 17y ago
I think $4k a month isn't overboard for 3 teenage boys, especially if you factor in school & health care. Health coverage should really be provided by the government, but that's a separate issue. Also, individual health insurance on teenage boys is going to be cheap: closer to $150 per month than $1000/month. School is provided by the government, for 12 years. College, on the other hand, is ridiculously expensive, but if the government isn't forcing married couples to pay for it (I know some $100-300k couples who paid nothing) it doesn't have a leg to stand on in forcing divorced parents to pay for it.
- sp332 17y ago
  If the government provided health care, he'd still be paying for it, with his taxes.
  - SwellJoe 17y ago
    And so would you and I. I don't have any kids, but I'd be paying for the health care of everyone that does.
earl 17y ago
Yes -- but he should be left with $2777 per month to live on? You basically can't live on that sum of money on the east coast unless you want to live a collegiate existence.
- cjbos 17y ago
  Well his wife and 3 teenage sons have only $4k a month to live on on the east coast ($1k per person). He has almost 3 times the disposable income as his wife in reality.
  - tjic 17y ago
    > Well his wife and 3 teenage sons have only $4k a month to live on ... and whatever she earns. Taking care of teenagers after school is not a full time job.
- petercooper 17y ago
  $2777 take home equates to about $47,500 gross per year (adding the taxes paid back in). The per capita income in New York state in 2005 was $40k. I suspect now it's around $43-45k.
randallsquared 17y ago
Sort of the "one good deed requires another" system, there? :)
Chocobean 17y ago
I think it's a sad state of affairs in divorce courts and that fathers usually get the short end of the stick, too But I don't understand why cjbos is getting downmodded for making a valid argument that $4k isn't that much money to raise a 4-person family. IF the author points out that his ex-wife is now re-married, or is working and bringing home more than $4k blah blah blah, then yes, evil witch, bad system. But let's not jump to judgment here, guys, especially when the author himself hasn't vilify this woman.
- Elepsis 17y ago
  With all due respect, if she's not working, _why the hell not_? She has custody of her children. That doesn't mean the man in the marriage should be stuck paying her total living expenses.
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by cjbos 17y ago

Notorious_PWN 17y ago

I think $4k a month isn't overboard for 3 teenage boys, especially if you factor in school & health care. Health coverage should really be provided by the government, but that's a separate issue. Also, individual health insurance on teenage boys is going to be cheap: closer to $150 per month than $1000/month. School is provided by the government, for 12 years. College, on the other hand, is ridiculously expensive, but if the government isn't forcing married couples to pay for it (I know some $100-300k couples who paid nothing) it doesn't have a leg to stand on in forcing divorced parents to pay for it.

sp332 17y ago
If the government provided health care, he'd still be paying for it, with his taxes.
- SwellJoe 17y ago
  And so would you and I. I don't have any kids, but I'd be paying for the health care of everyone that does.

earl 17y ago

Yes -- but he should be left with $2777 per month to live on? You basically can't live on that sum of money on the east coast unless you want to live a collegiate existence.

cjbos 17y ago
Well his wife and 3 teenage sons have only $4k a month to live on on the east coast ($1k per person). He has almost 3 times the disposable income as his wife in reality.
- tjic 17y ago
  > Well his wife and 3 teenage sons have only $4k a month to live on ... and whatever she earns. Taking care of teenagers after school is not a full time job.
petercooper 17y ago
$2777 take home equates to about $47,500 gross per year (adding the taxes paid back in). The per capita income in New York state in 2005 was $40k. I suspect now it's around $43-45k.

randallsquared 17y ago

Sort of the "one good deed requires another" system, there? :)

Chocobean 17y ago

I think it's a sad state of affairs in divorce courts and that fathers usually get the short end of the stick, too But I don't understand why cjbos is getting downmodded for making a valid argument that $4k isn't that much money to raise a 4-person family. IF the author points out that his ex-wife is now re-married, or is working and bringing home more than $4k blah blah blah, then yes, evil witch, bad system. But let's not jump to judgment here, guys, especially when the author himself hasn't vilify this woman.

Elepsis 17y ago
With all due respect, if she's not working, _why the hell not_? She has custody of her children. That doesn't mean the man in the marriage should be stuck paying her total living expenses.

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