He's free to come and go, start another family, move or not, always
paying less child support than he otherwise would have paid.
For example, if your divorce decree notes that you must pay a certain amount of child support each month yet you lose your job, your former spouse may agree to
accept less child support until you locate new employment.
For a few, however, it forces a child to exist when an uninterested parent just wants to
pay less child support.
The other parent is only spending more time with the child (ren) so they can pay
less child support.
I bet he thinks he'll have to pay
less child support.
So that they pay less income tax,
less child support, and less maintenance.
The more time a parent spends with a child,
the less child support that parent pays -LRB-... or receives).
The more scheduled time a non-custodial parent has with his children,
the less his child support obligation will be.
Stated simply, the more overnights that the non-custodial parent has with the child,
the less child support that they pay to the custodial parent.
«Child support is tied in some ways to the amount of time that children are with each parent,» Townsend says, noting that there are situations where the mother, for example, «doesn't want to decrease the amount of time the children are with her because she's going to get
less child support, or the father wants to increase his time with them because he just wants to pay less child support.»