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Legal Eagle: Child support amount also can be based on potential earnings (old article but really interesting).

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Submitted by InsistingOnPrenup on Sat, 12/01/2012 - 12:22pm

Legal Eagle: Child support amount also can be based on potential earnings
Thursday, April 19, 2001

By Patricia G. Miller

As you might expect, the amount of child support you could be obligated to pay is based largely on your income. But it is a little more complicated than that.

Sometimes it is based on your earning capacity or what you could earn if you tried. Meet six types of people who appear fairly often in support court. Each can require the court to consider the earning capacity question.

See previous blog re: breaking up w/ BF & spouse paying rent for background.

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Submitted by InsistingOnPrenup on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 11:16pm

Steptalk is an interesting conundrum. Here people come on, and complain about putting out too much financially and emotionally. About being used- their resources taken for granted. SO's that treat them like nannies/ maids/ chauffeurs and all other various types of (paid) help that one can think of. Child support is so high the "second family" suffers etc etc yet when I bring up these very same issues with my thoughts on solving them then it's unfair to SO. It's not the way a marriage runs.

Stepfamily statistics: Men lie, women lie, numbers don't... http://www.stepfamily.org/statistics.html

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Submitted by InsistingOnPrenup on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 3:42pm

The Statistics are Staggering:

Stepfamilies are not addressed, assessed and counted---further catapulting those who live in and lead our society into the quagmire of ignorance. The numbers tell the story: The US Bureau of Census relates:

Thought this was a good article on many step family issues... http://www.stepfamily.org/dynamics.html

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Submitted by InsistingOnPrenup on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 3:22pm

THE DYNAMICS OF STEP
 
BY JEANNETTE LOFAS
 
 
1. THE STEPFAMILY CANNOT AND WILL NOT FUNCTION AS DOES AN INTACT FAMILY:
It has its own special set of dynamics and behaviors.  Once learned, these behaviors can become predictable and positive.  The tendency of many is to overlay the expectations and dynamics of the intact, or natural family onto the stepfamily.  Others simply deny there is a problem.

Update re: spouse paying spouse rent...

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Submitted by InsistingOnPrenup on Sat, 10/27/2012 - 1:23pm

Ok so after listening to much of what was said yesterday (re: spouse paying spouse rent). I've suggested to my BF that he can own a share of the future home from the date of marriage equal to what he can afford to contribute. Instead of owning our home as joint tenants with rights of survivorship as most married people do (essentially either party owns the entire property upon the death of the first spouse) we can own it as "tenants in common". I own my share he owns his definitely not a 50/50 split.

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