Remember this fella? 1996 Republican Presidential Primaries. Mr 17% flat tax across the board, the only idea of Forbes’s platform. With Forbes’s flat tax, we would have gotten rid of the IRS, loopholes in the tax code and… all these socialist oddities originated in the New Deal, such as Social Security. Simple and perfectly unfair. The rich pay the same percentage as the poor in taxes. In other terms, the poor bear the burden of the tax effort.
If Forbes’s campaign did not go very far, his ideas seemed to have percolated New York State Child Support Standards, which every divorced non-custodial parent is bitterly acquainted with. From $10,000 to $80,000 of annual income, the law prescribes the same senseless, flat, child support payments: 17% of your gross annual income for one child, 25% for two children, for more than two children, your better become a waiter or a cook in some fiscal paradises such as Barbados or Liechtenstein… It would not come to the mind of the legislator that 25% of your gross income in child support for instance, is not equally bearable whether you earn $20,000 or $80,000 a year. And let’s not mention that child support payments could vary with custodial parent’s income, that would be splitting hair.
I was told that New York has traditionally been a liberal state. When?
That’s pretty good…Texas has 20% for one child…nice, very nice…
Of course New York State is liberal! Haven’t you heard of a Senator who goes by the name of Hilary Clinton and voted for the war.. then against.. then for… that’s very liberal / free thinking!
If any NYC fathers out there are ever in front of magistrate Joette Blaustein..pack up and move out of the country.
This particular magistrate is an unfair, bias, unprofessional, bitter woman who will hit you up for the max regardless of what documentation your attorney may bring to court. By the way, I’m a woman, not a man writing this.
My friend’s gross income was $10,000. His business was suffering great losses and his house was in foreclosure. His attorney brought all necessary documents to court to prove the downward financial crises he was in. Joette Blaustein refused to listen to his attorney and orderd him to pay $1,000 a month until a future hearing, three months away.
What does he do, not pay and go to jail? Borrow money from family and friends even though he can’t pay his mortgage. Who would lend him $3,000 knowing he was already in financial woes?
I know exactly how you feel,this magistrate abuse the system left and right,I have this magistrate since 1996 to 2008,what is left is a bumdle of arrears of $150,000.00
besides all the suffering that I went throught all this long years of litigations and spending monies on lawyers, regardless of what documentation my lawyers bring to court ,NOT ONCE does she look at documentation, despite I have been in disability since 20001,she is moody abuse of power and favoritism towards women this magistrate is careless and so cruel to any man human been. no one will get JUSTICE with this magistrate
Sincerely
Fardy Rendon
I am a mother who works 16 hour days, 7 days a week, just so I can barely squeeze by. I do it all for my two boys, and because of that I miss so much time that could be spent with them? Should I take their father to court for child support? Well, that would be strange considering we are married. We both struggle together now, but it sure is funny that I could take him to the bank were we to seperate.
The problem is not just those women who abuse the system to their advantage. The problem lies within the system itself, and how it uses money as a symbol of good parenting.
You make a very valid point. It IS the system itself that is at at fault. The NYS Child Support system is totalitarianism at its finest. It’s modern day tyranny and extortion against the non-custodial parent AND it allows abuse by the custodial parent. It’s a broken system that’s become cancerous and needs to be changed immediately.
But to your point, parenting is never addressed. We have human calculators judging & determining who is the better parent. Most of these magistrates/judges don’t even HAVE children.
LOL my children receive $31 a week total from their non-custodial. So much for abuse of the system.
Blaustein is a biased, incompetent “judge” that is a shame to the Judicial system. She is committing what is called an “ABUSE OF POWER” and “FAVORITISM” towards women.
Not all dads are “dead beat/lazy”. Women also have their bad apples: Did you know that some women are unscrupulous golddiggers? Flash news huh?
Several times, my husband has been in front of Blaustein, and NOT ONCE does she look at documentation. It is true what another commenter said, she is moody, and does what she feels like, not once are her actions in line with the law, or the regulations. She pretends that her OPINIONS are what the court orders should be. That’s not justice. That’s Blaustein running her sick anti-men show.
Justice will be brought to Dads in New York. I am putting together a case against her. She is unfit for legal duty. All of you who have had encounters with this feminist judge, email me. Like the previous poster, I too am a woman.
Email me at justice.dads@yahoo.com
Blaustein is very unfair and her cases should be under review.
I COULDN’T AGREE MORE!
I agree about Bleustein being biased. She is very unfair. Im a woman too.. There should be better solutions than her being unjust and being biased…?
Do you expect to put all those dads in jail if they cant pay the whole amount of money at the time they are asked to pay…? This is insane…
After reading the replies above, I’m totally screwed. It appears wheather you’re right or wrong, she will take the other side. I have a court appearance with this magistrate in December 22 and I’m now totally depressed knowing that I will not be treated fairly. Help! Anyone? Any suggestions?
I have a court appearance on friday july 23……took my ex wife back to court over a yr ago…went to supreme court where i was divorced. i was only to give $1600. a month for 2 kids but agreed to give an extra $1500 plus pay $300 a month life ins plus $1500 a month on top for private school plus $700 month for health ins….mind u my kids ask for money for lots other things too.. My business has been failing for 2 yrs now…behind on rent 6 months have all documents to prove…so i took her back for a modification. for 1 yr we fought in court…to be thrown out and sent to family court….im verrrrrry nervous. i could lose everything Dominick
Dominick,
Thank you for your comment.
I don’t like the fact, because I have been there, that your case has been sent to family court. You don’t want to be in family court, ever. What you might have heard about them is true: family courts are gender biased and they basically rule in favor of women. Let us hope that I will be wrong and that your petition for a downward modification of child support will be successful.
Now, if you allow me: do your kids need $1,600 a month to live on, granted that in addition to this amount, you pay for private school etc… Are you contributing for their living expenses or guaranteeing your ex-wife a standard living? What does your lawyer think about it?
Let us keep in touch,
Pierre
My husband and I don’t live in NY, but have been dealing with child support through the Bronx Family court since 2008. Our most recent hearing was March 14th where the child support jumped from $162 a week to $334 a week for 2 kids (and she has 2 kids by someone else). Plus they hit him with $11,547 retroactive. My husband has not missed one payment of child support. We have 3 kids together 1, 4, and 6. We usually see his kids 2-3 times a year because that $648 a month was tough. Now we really can’t afford to see his kids because we have no extra money to spend for us to go out to NY or them to come out here. Now we are scrambling trying to figure out how we are going to pay our bills and take care of our three kids. How is it fair that my husband is responsible for $334 a week and his ex is only responsible for $11.53 a week? His ex is able to drive around a 2008 Tahoe, plus a 2005 (I think) Tahoe, mind you she is most likely receiving food stamps and has the children on Medicaid. She took a trip to Disney world last year. Went to her Villa in PA for Christmas. When we see the kids they never look like they are being taken care of. Where is the money going? How is a person suppose to make an adjusted to their living with that dramatic of a change in child support? This system is failing the father in so many ways. A lot of these woman don’t care if the father ever see’s their child. All they care about is getting “their” money. If the child support that was being paid to these mothers was actually going to the kids then maybe it wouldn’t be as hard to swallow, but when you know it’s going for other things.
Regardless if you have kids or not you will have bills you have to pay. Rent, or Mortgage, Utility bills, Car payment, Ins. The father should help with food, clothing, education and medical expenses. These mothers need to be out there helping themselves instead of turning to everyone else to look after them.
The system allows the custodial parents to be lazy and live off the system. While fathers that are working 70-80 hours a week struggle to pay his bills. We can’t get any kind of assistance to help us.
I would love to do a documentary to show everyone how these mothers are living off the government and the child support they receive and not even really taking care of their children.
BTW we would have fought for custody years ago, but because the lack of money we couldn’t. We have asked for his son numerous times, but she refused to let him come with us. Now he is running the streets getting into all kinds of trouble. Half the time she doesn’t know where her son is.
I believe a father should pay child support and be able to have a relationship with his kids, but it needs to be fair. This system treats all fathers as if they are dead beat dads.
Amy
@Amy You stated “The system allows the custodial parents to be lazy and live off the system.” Really? I will have you know that I am a single custodial father and I receive $31 a week for TWO kids. Please tell me how I’m living off the system. $1600 a year doesn’t even feed my kids let alone give them a place to live or clothes on their back. The play sports which in itself costs me $500.
And no I am not rich in fact we are actually poor.
NYS has no laws requiring the non-custodial parent to maintain or look for a job even.
Hi Pierre, I would like to have a comment I posted removed. Is that possible?? The ex found it and brought it to court. Don’t want to state my name here so if it can be done I would like to send my name to u personally. Thank you
Dominick,
Stuff on the internet rarely admissible in court. If you don’t admit you wrote it then there is no proof you wrote it. Emails and texts are not admissible either. Anyone (including your ex) could have used your name and written the comments.
The percentages are guidelines only, in the end the Magistrate can rule however they please. Fun, huh?
Also Melvin… the internet can be admissible in court if they subpoena wordpress.com to cough up the ip address of the poster and cross check it with Dominick’s ISP. That being said… you can never erase anything properly from the internet anyway, everyone who’d ever had nudes leaked knows that… so if she knows it was here, there’s always a way to find it.
I also have something to say about Blaustein! You say she’s all for the mothers? Well, in my case, nothing could be farther than the truth! She adjourned my court case for, what went on for years, b/c my x simply ‘forgot’ to bring something with him. It was incredulous the amount of shit she allowed him to do. After YEARS of having death threats from him (over a lousy 17% of his 96,000.00 pay check, she wrote down a date, which I mistook for a 6, and when I showed up, as I always did (oh, and he also didn’t show up on more than two occassions), I was told from the officer who sits in front of her ‘court room’, that ‘sorry, it was yesterday your hearing. I literally couldn’t believe it! I had it down for the 6th for months. I had never been late, always had everything she asked for (which was always a lot) and she threw my case away. ONE TIME, instead of saying, let’s give her the benefit of the doubt.. she’s been here, with her things every single time. I am so angry over this magistrate. I guess enough men complained, now she seems to be after the woman? I’m done!
I have a male friend that was concerned with his appearance before Blaustein, based on site comments. Well, with all said, he was pleased with the final outcome. Custodial parent was postponing and requesting baseless adjournments Blaustein, would have none of it and dismissed case in its entirety. Mother filed appeal and lost. Without prejudice, I believe Blaustein, saw both parties for whom they were. The father never missed a support payment and the mother never consistently worked.
Right now after my extendedd family committed fraud with social services complicit, the judgement against me may take my home and life and I am a completely disabled person. What do I do now.