How Child Custody Laws Turn A Profit
Divorce is not complicated when there are no children involved. Basically, the assets are divided into two parts and the spouses go their different ways. However, when kids are put in the mix this can result in months or years of court battles and thousands of dollars are spent during this time.
The divorce industry stands to make a lot of money when there is a disputed child custody issue.
There have been a great many studies that have proven that joint custody and shared parenting are far and away the best situation for any child in a divorced household. The child will be happiest when his or her parents live close enough to one another that they can spend equal amounts of time with both parents.
The reason it doesn’t happen this way most of the time is the divorce industry itself makes a huge amount of money both litigating and administrating split child custody arrangements. They do this by setting up a custodial and non-custodial parent; if the child spent equal time at both homes there would be no need for child support. By giving one parent custody, it automatically sets up a situation where the custodial parent must receive some form of compensation from the non-custodial parent.
The way the divorce industry makes money on this is an old banking trick. They collect money from one party and hold it a few days or a week later, and they make money on the float or the interest that collects during the time it is in their account. This number might not seem like much at first, but when one takes into consideration all the child support payments made on an annual basis, it becomes quite big.
Many dads spend their last dime paying an attorney in an attempt to get child custody of their children. When in reality the conclusion was already made that the mom would get child custody. The Friendly Parent doctrine is an idea that is gaining more favorable attention in the U.S. It says the parent most likely to include the other parent in the parenting process should get custody. However this doesn’t apply in all states.
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