Lightning McQueen wrote:I've paid over $85K over the past 17 years to a hoe that turned out to be a closet alcoholic schizophrenic who tried to cut my balls off in one fit of rage, smashed an aftershave bottle over my head while I was asleep, cracked me over the head with a beer stein while I wasn't looking and stabbed me in the face and arm with a fork.
I took her to court 3 times to try and see my kid but she never showed up on all 3 occasions which cost me over $10K in legal fees, only to get nowhere with it, we only seen each other for a few months and I was later informed she only wanted to to go out with me to fall pregnant so she wouldn't have to work.
Love is grand.
The system has it's flaws.
It's crazy hey!! My friend's partner has paid a fortune to his ex, whose kids didn't even live with her at the time - she kept the money while the kids lived with their grandmother. My ex gets around the system because he lives in the US, and the agency is really limited in what information they can access. I could probably get a decent sum out of him if I turned him over to the US child support authorities - they'll repo your house and furniture if you don't pay up - but I'm over it. I did get one good moment of satisfaction when he turned up in Australia with his new wife and was apprehended by child support at the airport, while wearing his World's Greatest Dad cap, and they took $800 off him right then and there. I don't know how they knew he would be there - maybe they've set up an alert for Immigration to notify them whenever he comes in - but he hasn't set foot in Australia since. He sends his wife instead to pick up our son for his annual visit.