Arumbia67 wrote:Galloism wrote:1. Agreed there.
2. Hmm, seems to be only for little children though, based on your quote.
3. I mean, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's pretty shitty to have charities support the children with upper middle class and higher parents when they really should be focused on the poor.
If you're actually upper middle class, then this is all moot. You can afford a kid just fine. What would be upper middle class in NYC? 200k a year?
Probably, yeah.
Thing is though, the two parents may not be the same class. The obligor parent could be dirt poor (which is roughly 50k in NYC terms) and the custodial parent make 200k a year. I'd argue in that case that child support may be entirely inequitable for economic reasons.
Conversely, the obligor parent could be upper class at 500k, and the custodial parent be dirt poor. In that case, quite a bit more than 18k in support is equitable.