child support payent of $225 mnth

[rjmundo]

child support payent of $225 wk

What is the name of your state?
PA

My wife and I have agreed to seperate.We have two children ages 5 and 3. Here is the rundown...

225 a wk, which can increase if I make more money, kids sports activities would be split half, college down the road is split,

all this on a base of 32k. 410 mnth rent + gas. does this seem fair..

concerned father.

 

[secondwife]

Here is a website with a PA Child Support Calculator.

http://www.pennglazier.com/support/

Maybe this could help you! Good Luck!

 

[DChristian112]

Is the child support $225.00 a week or a month. Your topic line says a month, but your post says a week.
Please advise.


On a side note...
In MN, if you have two children, you pay 30% of your gross income.
My ex makes $30,000.00 a year, he pays $7,032.00 per year- which is $586.00 per month
If PA orders even 25%- you should pay at least 8,000.00 per year, at $666.67 per month.
Just my information for you.

Good Luck!
God's Blessings!

 

[Lil Miss Smarty Panties]

It also depends on what HER income is.

 

[DChristian112]

Oh, right, I guess that is true.
Does PA determine child support based on CP and NCP's income?
I was unaware of that.
In MN, it is only NCP.
Good Luck!

 

[Lil Miss Smarty Panties]

Yes, PA uses both incomes to determine support. So this guy would need to know what her wages are also when doing the child support calculator thingy.

 

[rjmundo]

Thank you

Thnaks for the feedback.

Any more feedback is appercitaed.

RJ

 

[hexeliebe]

O.K. let's see if this makes sense.

Rent of $400 a month (assuming you are still living with family) and your half would be $200. Groceries for small children is about $100 a week. Your half would be $50.

Clothes, toys, entertainment and the nice things of life cost approximately another $50 a week or your half $25.

So far we have $275 if you were still living together.

Now let's include utilities, phone, cable, taxes and other necessities just to live and you will be spending approximately $100 a week if still living together. Your half would be another $50.

Now we're at $325 a week.

Childcare for small children (which you did not mention) is approximately $125 per child a week (for a safe, qualified environment) so that's a total of $250 a week or, your half is $125.

Now we're at $450 a week.

Now let's compare. Living together with wife and kids you would be paying approximately $450 a week for everything. Living apart and insuring your children are safe and healthy $255 a week.

Is that fair? You decide.

 

[DChristian112]

"Rent of $400 a month (assuming you are still living with family) and your half would be $200. Groceries for small children is about $100 a week. Your half would be $50.

Clothes, toys, entertainment and the nice things of life cost approximately another $50 a week or your half $25.

So far we have $275 if you were still living together.

Now let's include utilities, phone, cable, taxes and other necessities just to live and you will be spending approximately $100 a week if still living together. Your half would be another $50.

Now we're at $325 a week.

Childcare for small children (which you did not mention) is approximately $125 per child a week (for a safe, qualified environment) so that's a total of $250 a week or, your half is $125.

Now we're at $450 a week.

Now let's compare. Living together with wife and kids you would be paying approximately $450 a week for everything. Living apart and insuring your children are safe and healthy $255 a week.

Is that fair? You decide."

*** I am a little lost, why are either of them paying $400/week on rent?
wouldn't it be $50.00 per week?

I do not see where you added proper numbers to get $255.00 per week. I think MAYBE you got a little confuse with your own numbers...

Look at this:
Rent is $400 per month- x 12= 4800/52=92.31 per week on rent.
So we are at $92.31 so far

Then-Groceries are $50 per week
so we are at $142.31 per week

Add $25.00 for misc expenses, entertainment, clothes, whatever

We are at $167.31

Also add $50.00 for utilities- $217.31

The add in childcare- $125 per week. We are up to a grand total of $342.31 per week.

Which is 17,800.12 a year, which is 55% of HIS income. I think that is a little excessive if you ask me.

I think if you base if off of his income @ 25 %, which is: 8,000 per year @ 153.85 per week, that sounds more reasonable.

Sorry Hex, I just got really confused on your numbers. you were already deducting his portion from the total amount, and then divided it again, I did not understand why.

I guess if you would want this to be 50/50, then that is great, but with most court ordered cs, it is not to exceed a certain percent, and even with the numbers you calculated Hex, he would be paying 41.4 % of his gross income. For some reason, that seems a little unreasonable, since they take out CS taxed, then fed and state taxes, if he has 401 K, union dues, whatever, he would be bringing home little to nothing each month.

Just trying to understand that is all, no offense to your numbers. maybe I am just slow...

 

[hexeliebe]

Then go back and read again. The situation I explained has nothing to do with formulas or state law. It has to do with the cost of raising a family if you are living with your spouse as opposed to being divorced.

 

[DChristian112]

I did read it again, and to me, it made no sense.
I am not trying to offend you Hx, or piss you off. It is just confusing...
Here is YOUR breakdown:

400 per MONTH for rent- say 4 weeks to a month

50 per week for rent.

100 per WEEK for groceries

50 for misc needs per week

100 for utilities per week

250 for child care per week

Total IF LIVING TOGETHER is 600 per WEEK

If 50/50. split in half, 300 per week.

From what you wrote, you said HIS half was 450 per week, then divided it again. Are you doing so because he is paying half of the half he would be paying if he lived there?

Sorry, the numbers are not clear to me.
(I am accounting major, and cannot see a proper resolution with your numbers.)

 

[hexeliebe]

Now let's compare. Living together with wife and kids you would be paying approximately $450 a week for everything. Living apart and insuring your children are safe and healthy $255 a week.

O.K. I'll try this again.

$450 is his half of all expenses if he were living with the family and paying normal expenses.

$255 is what he has quoted and asked a question about.

Now what is it that the above quote makes so difficult.

 

[haiku]

well the way my support paying hubby and I look at it, would be according to your income and her income, the court has decided it takes 450 a week to raise your kids in the way they should have been had you stayed married. (225 from you, 225 from your ex.)

thats 1,800.00 a month. thats an easier way to see how it works.

 

[hexeliebe]

O.K. one last time and then I'm outta here.

The original poster asked a simple question. Is this fair. He didn't ask what the statutory requirement was, if the court would so order or anything else except was it fair.

I compared the cost of what he was actually paying while living in the house and what he would pay when divorced and living on his one. And I also told him to decide for himself it was fair or not.

Geeez ladies, give it a rest. This is not rocket science. It's a yes or no answer based on the Original Poster's queston.

Now, if he wants to come back and answer the question I asked that's his perogative. But I simply don't feel the need to validate my answer to anyone but him so bye bye.

 

[stealth2]

hex.... the problem with your calculations that DC raised is that OP gave a rent of $400/mo. You included that as $400/week. You did mess that up, dude.

I still want to know if the CS he quoted was per week, or per month. Per month - very reasonable. Per week, with his income - not so much.