Lawyer pays $28,000 a month in child support

Who knows? You could hire twelve nannies for that crazy money. Maybe he can't get the kids.

Hotmilf - i agree with you in that hes aobviously a douche who doesnt care about the kids.

SpoiledPrincess - I see your point but the case says the guy wasnt happy with how the ex wife was spending the money..i.e not on the kids!!
Women might be "entitled" to recieving some money from the father of their child, BUT remember that the money is for the child, NOT a new rolex or a holiday to the caribbean! Which faaaar more often than not is the sole reason behind these whole "child benefit" charades.

Wifey has become accustomed to a way of life and wants to maintain it by any means

$25,000.00 should be applied in a trust fund for the twins until they reach 21 years os age. I think she can raise two kids with $3000.00 if she is working nherself. My parents are multi millionaires, it did not take that much money each month to raise us..

she openly admitted she doesnt have to work, its her right to be a stay at home mom......

thats what we in scotland call a fucking brass neck

That case pales in the race Divorcing for Dollars. Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian was not even the father of Lisa Bonder's child yet ended up paying tens of thousand of dollars a month in child support. The two were married a total of twenty-eight days.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/27/0927divorce_3.html

I think that the children should live a lifestyle that is not too different than the father's. Imagine that your dad had a mansion, a luxurious vacation home or two, traveled by private jet and you were living with mom in a two bedroom apartment on the wrong part of town. It's hard for the child to understand and accept the disparity between mom's home and lifestyle and dad's. As long as the money is spent to provide a nice home, clothes and all the lessons and activities that other children of wealthy parents enjoy, I see no problem. The man's children are entitled to the same things that his other children have and he can afford it. I speak from experience here. It's not about mom it's the kids.

BTW, such a smart lawyer should have considered college tuition before he signed the agreement, I know I would have.

Very true.

My kids go a little nuts when their dad buys a new car or a bunch of new furniture for his house when they're wearing worn out jeans. (I receive no child support. We live well, but I just can't afford to keep up with the growth spurts and rapid changes in teenage fashions)

You don't need that much money to afford a nice home. Please show me a shitty 2BR in a bad neighborhood that rents for $20,000 a month. Private jets have nothing at all to do with good child rearing, in fact it would more than likely be harmful to the kids to have that much excessive wealth surrounding them. They might grow up to be like Paris Hilton. Anything above what it costs to feed them, clothe them, keep them in comfortable surroundings, properly educate them, and provide some kind of recreational stimulation is just going to end up spoiling them anyway, and if mom doesn't spend a ton of the money on herself, then the amount of spoiling is going to be huge because there's no logical, sensible or intelligent way to spend that amount of cash on children.

I'm happy for her, he should have kept his dick in his pants, that's what he gets for cheating. I could sure use some money, too bad I can't get pregnant.......

Family Law is in shambles in the USA. It's a JOKE.

The first place to start, is to establish, by LAW, a general child-support account that, all deposits and withdrawals are documented. Further, the money should be allocated for the essentials for raising children and ONLY that. Any misuse of the funds are red-flagged, and can be used against them in any later custody hearings.

What this establishes is fiscal responsibility AND monitored by law, something that is devoid in most Americans, and something that should be well-taught to the said children in question.

Lastly, 28k per month is outrageously high and absurd. I don't care who has custody of the kid. No grown man or woman should have to pay that amount, and no parent out there deserves that amount to spend. I don't believe in the blind redistribution of income based upon the fact someone parented a child. I think there should be a "child-support salary cap" as well.

...OB

This would work if not for the following.

She was never his wife and she is using the money for things that in no way benefit his children.

She's taking cruises without the kids on his dime? He should sue for custody.

Didn't the article say he was married to someone else when he fathered these kids? 28k is absurd but if you play you should have to pay, but I think this lady was nothing but a gold digger and found herself a sucker.

I obviously didn't read it all :)

Nine, read my post again. Dad is rich, why shouldn't his kids enjoy some of the benefits of his wealth? And why would he want to deprive them? I did not say that the kids should have their own G4, but should not live a lifestyle that is not too dissimilar from dad's.

When my mother divorced my step dad he was ordered to pay child for my little brother (his son) and me. The amounts were based on his current income, which was, in 1977, above $100,000 a year. We lived in a very nice and large house, had nice cars etc. I think the child support was about $800 for each of us, she waived alimony in exchange for other the house and a few other assets.

A few years later step dad's career broke and he started making 10's of millions a year. While he was remodeling his new 14 million dollar home mom and bro (i got my own place near school by this time and was too old for child support) moved into a small townhouse. It was impossible for my 12 year old brother to understand why he had to move away from his friends and school because mom couldn't afford to live there anymore. He knew his father was rich, and to make matters worse, a public figure. So my brother could not get away from it. His friends would ask him why he couldn't afford a new bike when his dad was this 'famous rich guy'. It made my brother feel unimportant to his dad, and it appeared that he had become unimportant.

$28,000 is a lot if money every month, and I agree that they could do quite well on much less. But this man makes more than $50,000 a day! He made two mistakes, getting the woman pregnant and making a stupid deal with her. In 18 years he will have earned more than $200 million and paid less than 6 in support.