Charlotte Brown
Since: Nov 2011
Posts: 1
On reading the proposed new bill regarding the changes to the child support scheme, I do not see that there has been any significant changes that will make the system any fairer for the majority of ncp's held hostage to this system by greedy money hungry cp's. cp's will likely now hold the children hostage from their ncp even more than they already do so, so as not to allow the new recognised lower shared care overnight threshold reached! More applications under the Care and Protection Act for the already clogged family court system to deal with! There still seems to be no change to the policy that child support will still only allow there to be 1 recognised cp, regardless of the shared care ratio or the style of shared care parenting that is going on. Yes every case, particularly in shared care is often required to be individually argued out in administrative reviews, however I can't help but think that very little is going to change for those already in shared care situations. Situations that allow in a 50/50 care arrangement one party to have more babies to her new husband to gain a greater living allowance allocation, work reduced hours, take maternity leave all the while forcing the other party to pay even more through his net liability created through the totally unfair formula calculations. All this increase in payments for his ex wife's new 'lifestyle choices' and children that are not even his! Yet when he argues he can't afford to care fully for his child 50% of the time including day to day clothing, school uniform etc as well as paying significant child support to his ex wife, he is told to sell his house and downsize his life, but it's okay for her to have more babies and take maternity leave, reduced hours of work to look after new babies, further reducing her off-setting liability... where is the fairness in that??!
Where is the layman's explanation of the new proposed formula calculations??? That will reveal the reality of what, if any changes are going to impact those of us still caught in this soul destroying system.....
John S
Since: Dec 2011
Posts: 1
Perhaps we could see a full copy of the amendments. The link given points to IRD website which is a copy of what has been written here.
Ah; I've found one...
http://legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2011/0337/latest/versions.aspx
Also can the right honourable Dunne please ensure that when the figures of child support debt are published again it shows clearly what are penalties (and thus are money owed to the crown) and child support (money that may go to the crown, depending on the other parent's circumstances...).
