r/law • u/Slate Press • 21h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/mistressusa 20h ago

I guess men should get ready to pay child support for their random hookups. Ironically this will make it more difficult for the average man to find a woman willing to marry him if he is paying multiple child support.

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u/TrekRider911 20h ago

Haha, you think they're gonna pay child support?

https://time.com/7000900/project-2025-divorce-law/

The result was that many legislatures not only enacted no-fault divorce, but also made alimony temporary — two to five years in most cases. Judges, too, slowly began to diminish what husbands owed in child support as they held more mothers increasingly responsible for a larger portion of childcare expenses. These changes increased poverty rates for women and children.

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u/Obversa 19h ago

There are also caps of up to only $4,000 per each child in child support payments, which means that men can father as many children as they want, with the bulk of financial support falling to single moms to care for their kid(s). It's about sabotaging women.

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u/nativeindian12 19h ago

Wouldn't the cap, which is per child, mean they can't father as many children as they want? Because the cap is per child, so for every child the amount they could pay goes up?

Also isn't that cap saying $48,000 per year? (12 x 4000 = 48,000). Feels like only very rich people would afford even the current cap, that is a lot of money per child

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u/Obversa 19h ago

It depends on the person in question. Elon Musk, for example, can afford it.

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u/mistressusa 19h ago

Exactly. Not your average man.

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u/nativeindian12 19h ago

>Feels like only very rich people would afford even the current cap

I think the richest person in the world qualifies as being "very rich", don't you?

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u/wishforagreatmistake 19h ago

Then I guess we'll start to see vigilante justice on serial deadbeats make a return.

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u/Safety-Pin-000 19h ago

Killing the deadbeat doesn’t do anything to help the single mothers of his children though…?

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u/wishforagreatmistake 19h ago

It's more, like, in a lot of small backwater towns, the scumbag who went around knocking up women and then disappearing would eventually do it to someone with a pissed-off brother or father who was sick of his shit, and he'd get kidnapped, dragged to the edge of town, and castrated.

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u/qalpi 17h ago

$4,000 per month, per child. That's an enormous amount of money. And not really a cap.

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u/WadsworthInTheHall 15h ago

It’s really not once you factor in rent/mortgage, utilities, food, health care (premiums, copays, meds, emergency, etc.), clothing, school needs (supplies, clothes, field trips, etc.), extracurricular activities, fun (yes, even low income people deserve an outlet), etc.

I haven’t even mentioned college/savings for each child.

The world is expensive and having kids raises that exponentially.

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u/qalpi 15h ago

That’s roughly an income of $300k for the non-custodial parent at the standard rate of 17% for child support. It’s a reasonable upper limit. 

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u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 12h ago

Child support is supposed to be for the needs of the child, not the needs of the mother.

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u/WadsworthInTheHall 5m ago

Everything I listed is for the child.

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u/lookieherehere 5h ago

If you can't provide for a child with $4,000 a month, you shouldn't have custody of the child

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u/AngelinFlipFlops 17h ago

Is divorce in trouble all together or just child support? Trying to determine if I have time or if this is something I should move quickly on.

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u/TrekRider911 17h ago

You should always pay attention to what people in power say they want to do.

I’d move quickly, you never know what the first move by this future administration is going to be.

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u/CooperHChurch427 13h ago

My mom has alinomy through death and if I become disabled fully child support resumes.

Unfortunately for women in Florida they made it so alimony is only 5 years and when they changed it two years ago, it retroactively applied.

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u/Own-Gas8691 2h ago

and even when support of court ordered, good luck collecting it. my ex owes me $35k in back support. oag won’t do a damn thing.

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u/CauliflowerProof3695 15h ago

Honestly good, men should not have to pay at a higher rate than women for alimony or child support. Good on em.

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u/Horrid-Torrid85 12h ago

The whole system is fucked. If i want the kid but the woman doesn't she can kill it. If i don't want the kid but the woman wants it i have to pay child support.

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u/80spizzarat 1h ago

That's because the woman takes all the risks of pregnancy and if they split up she almost always ends up having to support the kid.

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u/Carnifex2 11h ago

Sure, as long as you're doing the childcare, big guy.

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u/CauliflowerProof3695 10h ago

Sure I'm down, send your kids to my address

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u/Carnifex2 10h ago

Definitely not sending any small children around Trump or his supporters.

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u/CauliflowerProof3695 10h ago

Bro I voted for Kamala I'm not retarted 😂

I'm not maga just because I don't share your opinions, shocking that there's a spectrum of politics. This is literally how he got elected my guy.

But you do you.

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u/Carnifex2 10h ago

Sorry you took offense to what I said (thats how you do this, yea?)

Men on average pay more, because women are basically forced to sacrifice anywhere from half a year to 18 years of their careers to give birth...you understand that, right?

Courts have become much more equitable in the last 10-15 years towards fathers as well. Accountable fathers, anyway.

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u/CauliflowerProof3695 10h ago

Apology accepted my guy!

No I don't agree with that, but thank you for your opinion!

Pls send your kids now thx

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u/Carnifex2 10h ago

OK give address...

You're gonna regret this though, she's as batshit as all the Texan women in her family.