I divorced in Johnson County, state of Kansas. The divorce court had worksheets for both alimony and child support. They plugged in the numbers and told me I had to pay $x for 43 months, based on our income and the number of years we had been married (12). I was fine with that.
I do have a beef with child support, which gets adjusted every six years based on my income at that point in time. I would never seek to deprive my son of a decent life, but there is no control over how that increasing over time payment is spent. Somehow my Flexible Spending Account adminstrator is able to give me a card that restricts the places I can spend at, and requires receipts for other expenses…couldn’t we do the same thing with child support, leaving any balances in an account my son could have access to at 18 (or 25)?
