In many cases children enter family court with two parents and leave with one primary parent and a payor/visitor, pushed to the periphery of their lives.  The Guidelines are based on the assumption that children have primary residence with one parent and spend approximately one-third of the time with the other parent, rather than an assumption that a child will spend equal time with both parents.  In most cases, the Guidelines create a windfall for the custodial parent as a child support recipient.

National Parents Organization proposes that the guidelines be developed to:

Treat the child support obligation of both parents in a shared parenting situation where both parents are custodial and residential parents equally unless the court finds that such treatment would be unjust, inappropriate, and not in the best interest of the child.
Lower support amounts with due regard to the needs of the child.
Base child support on after-tax income, not gross income.
Not include earnings form overtime and second jobs.
Not include bonus income.
Encourage equal treatment of all children, including first and second families.
Encourage shared parenting.
Incorporate a true self-support reserve for poor payors.
End or modify the child support after high school, unless special needs exist.
Remove legal requirement to pay for college.
Clarify how the child support is to be used, and specify the types of expenses it covers.
Base child support on actual income not attributed income.

I have been in the divorce process nearly 4 years.  The courts have an obvious bias against the fathers and still favor the mothers even if the kids want to be with the father, the legal guardian states the children should be with the father, the forensic therapist states the children favor the father more than the mother, etc. 

I was forced by the court to settle my child custody case since I am a "MAN and should be happy with 50% custody." 

With these being said, I make 4 x the salary of my ex-wife (we both have the same level of education and she never spent any time at home after giving birth).  Now because I have custody 50% of the time she is considered the custodial parent by the NY Child Custody laws and need to pay full child support and of course she does not need to account for any of the monies spent.  Additionally, I need to cover health insurance, dental, vision, etc as well as other payments at the rate of 75% for after school activities and her babysitting costs.

At this point, even though I make 4 x my ex-wife's salary, she ends up clearing more money and now I have barely enough to live on my own and support my children's needs when they are with me 50% of the time.  

What I am asking and begging for is for you to petition and work on passing fair child-support laws to protect not only the “money making spouse” but the children as well.  It is time for a real child-support  reform for not only men that have been unfairly treated by our court system but for the children also seeing their fathers struggle while the moms enjoy spending the money on themselves since there is no accounting required.

Should 50% of the time equal to 50% child support?  Or is it ok for the “money making spouse” to have barely any funds left to rent a studio apt for him and his 2 children.  Ontop of all this I am paying as well $1,000 a month alimony for the next 15 months. 

Why does anyone need to pay alimony since woman are fighting for equal rights as men; job promotions, pay, state offices, etc.

I have always heard justice is blind, but it so dumb also?

Please HELP!