How much child support do you get?

gingerjen7

Even if you terminate your rights, you still have to pay.

That is not technically true. Terminating rights eliminates the obligation to pay child support, even in Pennsylvania. However, in Pennsylvania, you cannot legally voluntarily terminate your rights unless you have another person willing to step in and fill your role, like an adoptive (step)parent.

DamnImASexyBitch

Not anywhere enough to support THEM the way they should be. I thank God that my husband ( not their biological father ) has stepped in and they want and need for nothing even though it's not his responsibility. They get $37.50 a week split between TWO kids. Their dad is a deadbeat and often begs his mother to cover that. He doesn't have a job ( so he says ) so I guess I should be glad they get anything at all. Up until this past year he was collecting social security disability under the reason of social anxiety disorder. He was found to be a fraud, and now owes the government $15k. Karma. Gotta love it.

jcr85

You guys need to move to PA!!!

You get a percentage of his -potential- income.
Marry a doctor who now works at McD's to spite you? Your child support is on a doctor's salary. Keeps idiots from doing this. Even if you terminate your rights, you still have to pay.

and this is why I will never have kids.

PetulantOne

0 from his biological father. My husband now helps out a great deal, I'm so lucky to have him.

kramalicious

If someone terminates parental rights they don't have to pay child support, unless they owe some back support. You might be thinking of visitation instead.
More states are going to shared income model, based on how much the parents make and what the kids need.
The rest of you should take those deadbeats to court IMO. Although I understand why some people would rather not have anything to do with those sorry parents who are more detrimental to their kids than helpful.
NOT INTENDED TO GIVE LEGAL ADVICE TO ANYONE, YMMV.
"i'm just sayin'"

eksproductions

MA is 28% of your pay. Don't forget ladies, these kids need their fathers.

ms_rayzd

I have a daughter with special needs (seizures every week), hosptial bills out my *kitten*, can't afford day care although she's 13 and I will get $0. Well, to be honest I just filed last week, Child Support office said they won't be able to do anything because I don't have an address, a middle name or a SSN. I gave them his work mailing address and phone number but they won't do anything with it. He gets to live the high road and my daughter and I get to struggle with bankrupcy around the corner.

1981simm

We pay 600 a month for one little girl who sees none of it... her mom lives on low income housing that she pays nothing for and receives the max food stamps and has four other children with three other dads from whom she also receives support and works two jobs under the table so that she doesn't have to report income... the only upside is that we get her every other weekend half of holidays and summer:/ I just wish that her mother could at least dress her so that she wasn't made fun of at school but the only new clothes she gets I buy and send home to find that her mother wears them. I'm all for paying for what my child needs but I feel her mother has the system worked and I just have to sit and pay:/ oh well

sizzle92

One child, $500.00/mo plus insurance. I also spend money on her besides that for clothes and whatnot. I love my girl, so it's still a bargain.

Why can't my ex be like you?????

martymays

One child, $500.00/mo plus insurance. I also spend money on her besides that for clothes and whatnot. I love my girl, so it's still a bargain.

Why can't my ex be like you?????

When my ex and I married, she had 2 kids from a previous marriage. Their father was a deadbeat and never paid a dime support. After a few years, he volunteered to give up parental rights to stay out of jail for failure to pay child support. So I was able to adopt them after that. They are both responsible adults now. I think seeing their biological father like he was made me even more detrmined to do the right thing when we divorced. I don't aways get it right, but it's not from lack of trying.

sizzle92

One child, $500.00/mo plus insurance. I also spend money on her besides that for clothes and whatnot. I love my girl, so it's still a bargain.

Why can't my ex be like you?????

When my ex and I married, she had 2 kids from a previous marriage. Their father was a deadbeat and never paid a dime support. After a few years, he volunteered to give up parental rights to stay out of jail for failure to pay child support. So I was able to adopt them after that. They are both responsible adults now. I think seeing their biological father like he was made me even more detrmined to do the right thing when we divorced. I don't aways get it right, but it's not from lack of trying.

Your awesome! My ex does pay.....but he complains about it every step of the way.

gingerjen7

I have a daughter with special needs (seizures every week), hosptial bills out my *kitten*, can't afford day care although she's 13 and I will get $0. Well, to be honest I just filed last week, Child Support office said they won't be able to do anything because I don't have an address, a middle name or a SSN. I gave them his work mailing address and phone number but they won't do anything with it. He gets to live the high road and my daughter and I get to struggle with bankrupcy around the corner.

My son Down syndrome, and because of his diagnosis he gets SSI (Supplemental Security Income for those who don't know). And I was told that if your child gets even a dollar of SSI, they automatically qualify for Medicaid (called Montana Healthy Kids here). It's a lifesaver. As the name would imply, it supplements our (my) income. I would not be able to pay all the bills without it, and I certainly never would have been able to go to college.

ShellBell4281

$200 usually. $250 last month. $0 this month.
We're not going thru the state, doing it privately.

Chapter3point6

You guys need to move to PA!!!

You get a percentage of his -potential- income.
Marry a doctor who now works at McD's to spite you? Your child support is on a doctor's salary. Keeps idiots from doing this. Even if you terminate your rights, you still have to pay.

Being obligated to pay and actually paying is two different things. I also live in PA and unfortunately know of several deadbeat dads.

rooster70460

I am in Louisiana and I receive $350.00 for my daughter from her father... BUT I have to pay the state $110.00 for my 17 yo son who is in juvenile jail til he is 18 yo. They have the same father.

But dad has to pay the state OVER $400.00 for the same said son!! Talk about a F@^%& up situation!!

fcp1234

You guys need to move to PA!!!

You get a percentage of his -potential- income.
Marry a doctor who now works at McD's to spite you? Your child support is on a doctor's salary. Keeps idiots from doing this. Even if you terminate your rights, you still have to pay.

Being obligated to pay and actually paying is two different things. I also live in PA and unfortunately know of several deadbeat dads.

I also live in PA and know alot of losers that do anything to not pay any child support.

ohtobe140

I get about $2470 per month for three kids (all under the age of 7) and more than half of that is half of our daycare/after school costs. I work full time, their dad does too, he makes twice as much as I do. He has 38% custody and we had an agreement that he paid less than the state mandated amount for the first three years because I was laid off for over a year so I didn't want him to have to pick up the slack because the company I worked for closed. Once I got a job making decent money I had the amount changed, it only affected him to the tune of about $400 a month. We are currently in a custody battle, which sucks, our son has special medical needs which he refuses to attend to so I really don't want to increase his time share, I don't want to take away what's set up our kids are well adjusted to our schedule and they are with him at a minimum of twice a week. I just wish he would grow the eff up and take care of our son the way he needs to, it's so minimal really. i hate being divorced, in some ways it sucks more than being in an abusive marriage with someone who cheated. At least I was used to managing "crazy" this is just painful.

LizHowerton

My hubby pays $450 per month child support for one daughter, plus a percent of out of pocket medical bills. I provide health insurance for her. We also spend quite a bit of money on her, buy her clothes, pitched in for a laptop, sent her to overnight camp she wanted to go to, take her on vacation, buy her shoes. He's a very good dad.

karawRN

well i was SUPPOSED to get 50 dollars a month. (1 child)

but i terminated his rights, he was unwilling to do it so took him to court, long process, but i terminated them.

and now he has to pay all the child support that he never paid me HAHAHAHA

if the idiot wouldnt have contested it, i would have called it even and not made him pay it back.

ms_rayzd

I have a daughter with special needs (seizures every week), hosptial bills out my *kitten*, can't afford day care although she's 13 and I will get $0. Well, to be honest I just filed last week, Child Support office said they won't be able to do anything because I don't have an address, a middle name or a SSN. I gave them his work mailing address and phone number but they won't do anything with it. He gets to live the high road and my daughter and I get to struggle with bankrupcy around the corner.

My son Down syndrome, and because of his diagnosis he gets SSI (Supplemental Security Income for those who don't know). And I was told that if your child gets even a dollar of SSI, they automatically qualify for Medicaid (called Montana Healthy Kids here). It's a lifesaver. As the name would imply, it supplements our (my) income. I would not be able to pay all the bills without it, and I certainly never would have been able to go to college.

Gingerjen7, I've applied several times for SSI and they either tell me that she's not sick enough or I make too much money...too bad it's not enough to take care of her.