Not me but I personally knew two couples where the wives took the kids far away, one many hundreds of miles away, the other to another country, then filed for custody in a US family court and got it and awarded child support.
As long as the woman kidnaps the kids before she goes to family court she gets awarded full custody and child support and the father is completely screwed, no children and no paycheck, and she has won the gravy train(In one of the cases the victim volunteered to get laid off from his job once he woke up to how badly he got screwed).
RE :”Maybe an accounting of how money is spent is a good idea. “
It should be required much like SS survivors benefits to kids. Also another fellow I once worked with told me he was required to pay child support till the kids were 21, not 18.
” As long as the woman kidnaps the kids before she goes to family court she gets awarded full custody and child support and the father is completely screwed....”
Nice system, if you know how to play the game, eh ?
Tough and very wrong cases but not every woman does that so there needs to be a better way than punishing everyone. Actually I think most real men expect to share support of their children. Those women who use it to punish and men who don’t care if their children eat or not deserve whatever life inflicts on them.