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Cromartie, 28, signed a four-year, $32 million contract last fall.
He better stay healthy to collect every single dime of that contract otherwise within a couple of years of his retirement, he's gonna be broke.
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Is it just me or is $3,500 pretty outlandish for a months worth of child support?
Anyone have kids know if this is correct? Seems to me that is at least twice the average cost a kid should have per month. I could easily see raising a child on $500 a month once you factor in buying in bulk etc....and certainly $1000/month should be plenty.
Is this just all factoring in medical care or setting up some kind of savings for the kid?
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Is it just me or is $3,500 pretty outlandish for a months worth of child support?
Anyone have kids know if this is correct? Seems to me that is at least twice the average cost a kid should have per month. I could easily see raising a child on $500 a month once you factor in buying in bulk etc....and certainly $1000/month should be plenty.
Is this just all factoring in medical care or setting up some kind of savings for the kid?
It's based off of the standard of living that the father "should" provide based on his income.
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Ahh.
Well thats kind of ridiculous. I figure they should just have to provide whatever welfare would have provided.
Except for the sleazy seed-spreading and probably IQ problems these kids got some top-notch athletic genetics. Probably 50/50 if they'll end up in prison or the NFL.
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Cromartie, 28, signed a four-year, $32 million contract last fall.
He better stay healthy to collect every single dime of that contract otherwise within a couple of years of his retirement, he's gonna be broke.
I think he's got a good career after the NFL as a sperm donor. 100% hits, every time.
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But why?
Why should a kid with a very rich father be forced to live in poverty? Why should the state and federal governments be forced to give assistance to a child whose father is rich beyond words?
If this guy has a child by his wife who gets everything, why should a different child born to a different mother be denied a moderate standard of living? Plus ..... $3500/month is only $42,000/year. It's not like he is paying out millions to support his children.
He just signed a 4 year deal worth $7 million or so average per year. Assuming that he only gets half after taxes, that's $3.5 million/year. If he has 10 kids out of wedlock, and he pays $3500/month to each one, that's $420,000/year in child support. That still leaves him over $3 million clear to "provide for his family" ..... which, by the way, should include those other kids as well, even with him paying a very modest child support relative to his income.
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Well thats kind of ridiculous. I figure they should just have to provide whatever welfare would have provided.
That's rediculous. A guy shouldn't be able to throw his seed around, live like a king, while his kids live a life of poverty (welfare).
Someone should castrate Cromartie. Enough is enough. He may be fathering children but you can't tell me these kids have him as a father. 10 kids, multiple states. What kind of father figure is this joker being?
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Heh. I'm not sure if there is an objectively correct answer for how much this dude should pay in child support. I was mostly wonder how much people spend on kids these days, as I only know what I spend on myself and my girlfriend. $42,000 a year sounds like a lot to me. But I don't really like to debate politics. I wouldn't intervene if Cromartie was giving them $0, won't intervene at $3500 a month, and wouldn't intervene if they castrated him and took all of his money. Don't care, just sounds like a lot to me and I'm trying to figure out my future budget for my future kids 
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$42,000 would be a lot. To you. Of course. This isn't about what you can afford, or the amount you could spend raising a child. This guy makes millions. His kids should each be able to live the life that they would lead if they lived with him. Their father. At least until they're 18. Then they're on their own. At least as far as the state should be concerned. If he's even remotely responsible he'll have college funds set aside. As any extremely wealthy parent should.
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And frankly, $42,000 won't give them anywhere near the lifestyle they would have if they lived with him.
I bet that he lives in a rather lavish home, and his 'at home" kids probably want for nothing at all. $42,000 won't buy that for a kid living with a single mom.
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It's been a while since I was divorced - like 21 years I think.
I'm sure each state has it's own calculations - but for me, the state of Indiana took my income, combined my ex's income, and started with that number.
Then they went to their charts and said "okay, with a combined income of that amount, child support is this amount. Add in any "extra" expenses - like child care, medical situations - etc.
They took that number, and said "okay dad, you make 60% of the income, so you will pay 60% of the expenses in child support."
Had we been making $500,000 per year - and I still earned 60% of that, I'd still have paid 60% of the expenses. Only difference would have been that, in the states "charts", a family income of $500,000 would have resulted in a higher base amount of child expenses.
And when you get right down to it - if a family has $500,000 in income, they will spend more on their kid/s than a family that has $50,000 of income.
It's about as fair as it can be, really. Now, that was Indiana, and that was 20 some years ago.
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If they truly want the kids to live a similar life style they should just give him custody and let the baby mama come visit. Taking his money and giving it to her and expecting it to be only spent on the kids is ludicrous.
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Is it just me or is $3,500 pretty outlandish for a months worth of child support?
Anyone have kids know if this is correct? Seems to me that is at least twice the average cost a kid should have per month. I could easily see raising a child on $500 a month once you factor in buying in bulk etc....and certainly $1000/month should be plenty.
Is this just all factoring in medical care or setting up some kind of savings for the kid?
for a man of moderate means, yeah, that would be outlandish. But for a guy that makes what Cro makes,, (if My math is anywhere near accurate), after taxes, 3500 a month per kid works out to be a little over 10% of his after agent fee and after tax income. (that's for 10 kids but now I guess he's about to add 2 more. but a total of 4 will live iwth him so no child support there,, so its for 8 kids I guess right?) and if that's the case, it's under 10% of his Net income.
10 or 12 or even 15% of his take home pay seems reasonable. the problem is, he won't make that kinda money forever.. Hope he invests well...
But kid doesn't need 3500 to live a month.. so, some of that should be directed towards college funds of future investment stuff I'd guess.
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But kid doesn't need 3500 to live a month.. so, some of that should be directed towards college funds of future investment stuff I'd guess.
You would think, but that's not the way child support works. That money is sent to the custodial parent to do with whatever he or she wants.
A SMART custodial parent would use the money prudently. I know when my son moved back with me at age 12, and once his mom realized she had to pay support (which took about 2 years before I called the court and they just flat out took it from her check)........shoot, our monthly expenses hardly went up.
Child support receipts? Into a savings account to help him with college.
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But kid doesn't need 3500 to live a month.. so, some of that should be directed towards college funds of future investment stuff I'd guess.
You would think, but that's not the way child support works. That money is sent to the custodial parent to do with whatever he or she wants.
A SMART custodial parent would use the money prudently. I know when my son moved back with me at age 12, and once his mom realized she had to pay support (which took about 2 years before I called the court and they just flat out took it from her check)........shoot, our monthly expenses hardly went up.
Child support receipts? Into a savings account to help him with college.
Yeah, that makes sense. But I would have thought that with that kinda money involved, a court could order a certain amount put aside for college etc... maybe not?
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Next up Antonio is really the father of Octomoms kids 
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Next up Antonio is really the father of Octomoms kids
That right there would be hilarious...LOL
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Man...this reminds me of the stuff I saw in Jail----guys fathering their first child at 13 years old, 23 year old men with 6 freaking kids, multple kids with multiple baby momma's......It is a serious crisis in the inner city..
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It is a serious crisis in the inner city..
No, it's a serious crisis everywhere because it's not just the people in the inner city that are paying for all of these kids. It's a crisis in the inner city that most of these kids are born into a situation from which they have very little chance of rising above, but from a financial perspective, it's a crisis everywhere.
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have you seen "Teen Mom 2?" It's not just the inner city.
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