[FReepaholic]

>>...Last year, over $8 billion was paid to attorneys who practice Family Law...<<

That's the reason it will never change.

[janetgreen]

What a nightmare you've been through! It's not only North Carolina that's tough on fathers. In California, if an unmarried woman names an man as father of her child, he is ordered to pay child support EVEN if it is proven by DNA that he is not the father. In some cases it appears that the woman just puts several names into a hat and draws one. The mother is not prosecuted for this fraud, but is rewarded by receiving aid to dependent children, and the guy who was the "winner of the draw" gets his paychecks confiscated, and has to pay the full amount of aid plus interest back to the County. Big money maker for the County. The ex-district attorney of Los Angeles actually bragged about this crime.

[BuddhaBoy]

Men; Dont get married, dont have children. Just dont do it until the system changes, or the odds are that more than 50% of you will suffer.

[elbucko]

The Hidden Hardship in Family Law By Mark A. Peterson CPA, Defendant.

Although I have been a practicing CPA the last 24 years, I simply am incapable of understanding the IRS’s reasoning.

The author really doesn't elicit much sympathy from me. I do not consider CPA's as any more than facilitators for the IRS. The likely hood of meaningful tax reform will always be resisted by the American Assn. of CPA's. I find his predicament, entertainingly ironic.

[Centurion2000]

I would have disappeared LONG before that.