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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even $2000 a month isn’t enough to live large, it might cover rent but that’s it. Kids with divorced parents can’t always afford sports and college now that there are two households to support. If you want those for your kid, you need to start earning more and save. [/quote]

It won’t cover rent in this area. I rent a 2 bedroom 2 bedroom apt in rockville for more than $3000 a mo.  [/quote]

I'm a divorced mom and have had to move my two kids into a basement apartment for $1500 so I can still afford some activities at the school and around town and be able to fix the car etc. I do sometimes eat out with the kids when I don't have time to cook. That is my huge wasteful spending of the month. Threads like these make me ill. Like society really needs thousands of men with income beyond necessities using their money to play in life versus taking care of families. Not one man has written how he now has more money going to the kids than before.  It doesn't happen. I don't think it would be a bad idea actually to make public the childcare expenses. Maybe Virginia will see that their childcare amounts don't even cover food and utility costs for the month. Also couldn't you get an itemized list of expenses if you went to court? I think the only reason they don't is that it's more work and the amounts are so low to begin with. Is it really worth the time to itemize $400 per child a month in expenses? It probably costs more to house adults a month in a homeless shelter. I agree if an adult tried to sever the relationship by either being dangerous or cheating which is also dangerous that the alimony should be reduced.[/quote]

It’s not supposed to cover everything and you are supposed to pay part too.  You need to live within your means.  [/quote]

But my point is that the costs we were allocating towards each kid was close to $2000 each per month if allocating a third of the house towards them. Now each child gets in total from Virginia from both parents a dedicated $400 per month. That's only 20 percent of what they were receiving before. You can definitely take your spouse back to court if the money isn't used on the kids so first this argument that you can't is a lie. But furthermore, where does the other $1600 come from that ideally should go to them monthly and now go in this scenario? It doesn't. The kids just get less money. And this adds up quickly since this is a $1600 per month depletion. So sure it can cost a second person that much more in housing to live per month but beyond this they don't have more expenses. So in this scenario both parents don't have any less money for themselves.  They just have to pay more rent and the kid is the biggest loser only receiving 20 percent of what they did before which really only covers their housing and food. So what is all the fuss about with money? There are so few women and children making out from divorce and even men.[/quote]

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