18 months ago, I spent many hours at the state legislature lobbying against child support increases that put the non-custodial parent further into poverty. I can back up with actual figures that show, at least in Utah, that the non-custodial parent ends up in poverty in order to pay court mandated child support. Many people think the child only spends every other weekend with dad, but when you look at holidays, birthdays, weeks in the summer, it turns out to be about 50%, yet dad ends up paying about 70-80% of child support costs.

The child support change bill, that at the start of the legislature was considered to easily pass, in the end passed by one vote, due to our lobbying efforts.

BTW, the laws are lop sided in most states because the research the states use is flawed. Typically, they say, "let's see what it costs to run one household" and base everything on that. But in a divorce, you need to run two households.

FYI, in my case, divorce was a good thing.

>Well Craig, that's downright decent of you.. Somehow, I read into this, you have been the recipient of child support requests. Maybe that explains your position. I know my brothers both say divorce costs so much because it is worth it!<g>