The intent of the post was not to elicit humor, but rather to point out that child-support laws - in some states - encourage opportunistic women to engage in fraud. Fraud is at best unsavory behavior, in some cases criminal behavior. It is only recently that some states are accepting DNA tests in cases in court, for example, in order to substantiate paternity. In those states, there has been an enormous amount of fraud by women discovered in court, to wit, marry one man because he shows outstanding earning potential. Such a man is excellent child-support fodder. The women then chooses to have a child with another man, divorce her husband, and collect child-support from the bigger wage earner, now her ex-husband.
Certainly, the children are the most important thing. However, support of the children should be the responsibility of the biological father, the one who did not keep it in his pants, at least as far as that child was concerned. Even though he did not keep it in his pants, and was involved in an illicit relationship with a married woman, he still deserves to have an accounting of where the money goes.
In cases such as described above, the services of a professional made no difference ten years ago in states where there was no recourse, and no equal protection, for men in child-support cases.
