Child Support
11Not that you're predicament has this problem, but there's another side to child support that isn't cool, and that's for the supporter's side. My mother's 2nd husband had a nasty bitch for an ex-wife. She milked him for every penny she could when they got divorced. They had 3 children together, only one of them was under the age of 18 (his son, who was 16) and didn't have a full-time job. This poor guy had 40% of his pay sent to his ex-wife, who didn't have a job and lived in the house he bought. When my mother met him, he was living in a studio apartment and could barely afford his own rent, let alone food for himself. He was making a modest amount, but clearly not enough. Finally, my mother stepped in and helped him get some legal action and got his payments to a reasonable amount. He loved his children, did everything he could for them. And even though my mother divorced him a decade later, I still think he was a swell guy, just a little too much of a pushover.