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Ok my circle of online friends, I need your help.

My ex is a dooshbag. And he's praying on my lack of mathematical skills to claim less payments owed by child support. Utilising google, I think I worked out the right percentage, but can someone help double check it?

There is 336 hours in a fortnight.

He currently has the kids every Tuesday afternoon from 1:30pm until 7:30pm. That's 6 hours a day, 12 hours for the fortnight.
He also has them every second weekend from 9am Saturday morning until 7:30pm Sunday night. That is 34.5 hours for the fortnight.

So that's 12 + 34.5 = 46.5 hours per fortnight.

So I take 46.5 and divide it by 336, and get 0.1383928
I take that number and multiply it by 100 and I get 13.83928

So, does that mean, that of a fortnight, he has the kids for 13.84% of the time?

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Yes, got the same results. 13.84% of 2 weeks

Hope that things get better for you and the kids soon! *hugs*

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Armi

Thanks Armi. Maths has never been my strong point, but thankfully I am getting better at detecting when he's using that against me. He was claiming it was 22% or something. Thanks heaps for clarifying for me!

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You're welcome. Yep, had a couple ex-bfs who are real DBs too.

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Armi

your math is correct.

Seriously why do these type of guys try to get out of paying child support. He should feel lucky that he is only paying what he does. Children are expensive little creatures.

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Dawn

Yep, like they said, your math looks good.

But my husband, who was reading over my shoulder, says, "Your ex sounds like a dooshbag who needs a swift kick in the butt. He should be asking if you need any more money for anything and he's only with his kids that little bit, he should be begging you and kissing your a** to see them more."

My hubby doesn't understand people like your ex. My hubby works 12 hours a day 7 days a week so I can stay home with our kids, and he cherishes every minute he gets to spend with the 5 of them.

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Genny

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

My parents divorced when I was a year old, and my dad didn't even show up to the custody hearing for my brother and me. Nor did he ever pay one single penny of the measley <$200 a month he was ordered to pay for 2 children. I think then it was more unusual for mothers to press payments, or maybe mine was afraid to. Sometimes we got Christmas presents, sometimes we didn't see him for months at a time, and we never stayed with him or even went anywhere with him. There were times when he would get mad at my mom about something, and come over and take back whatever he'd given us as gifts, or for no reason at all but probably to pawn them. As a child I didn't understand and loved him anyway, and always got really excited to see him, which I think always hurt my mom. Now though.... I haven't seen him in years.

My coworker was just telling me today that her ex skipped half a week of work every week for a month before some hearing they had to cheat his child support payment estimates. I can't understand how you would care so little for a person that you made, that you would try to cheat them out of something they need. So often it ends up being about spiting the mother, rather than helping the child. Jerks.

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Laura<3

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Genny

Oh, Genny......what a terrible situation with your dad, yet what an incredible blessing of a husband! Beauty for ashes .

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

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Genny

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