What you all don't understand is that the CPs here don't want the other parent around, just their money. If they can't afford the children on their own, then they should gladly allow the NCP some time to take care of the children, feed them, clothe them. By keeping the child(ren) away from the NCP is to say that the NCP is not really a parent. Why should my husband have to pay his ex-wife child support when she has him so alienated from him that the little girl calls another man Daddy? And her current boyfriend helps. If that jerk is so willing to help this b*tch keep a girl away from her father and wants the girl to call him Daddy, then he can pay for it. They are outright rich, we are living at half the poverty line from having to take off so much time to go to court. I am disabled.
The best way I can make to get you to understand. Say you and I bought a car together (chioldren are property here, like a car). I take the car and tell you you can't use it, or enjoy it, or have any say what I do with it, but you have to pay for the maintenence anyway, and for the gas. If I couldn't afford it on my own, I'd better be willing to allow you to have the car part of the time so that expenses could me more fairly split.
It's SELFISH of a CP to keep the children from the NCP, and even alienate, then to tell that NCP to also had over all his money.
This isn't about not loving the children or not wanting to support them. But if you are being scratched from being a parent, why should you have any parental responsibilities regarding money?
And if you are going to start on, "But if two people bring a child into this world together..." think of it this way. If financial responsibities should be split, so should parenting reponsibilities. Both people should have equal time raising that child. Bring a child into this world together, support the child together. but also raise the child together, if not side-by-side, then through 50-50 custody unelss one parent is truly unfit (no child molester should be allowed unsupervised visits!).
No loving, safe parent should be reduced to the status of visitor, or worse, as an invisible cash machine.