From: tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker)
Subject: Re: Why there might be a need for a (Pre-Sex Contract)
Organization:  I'm part of a massive Blonde Conspiracy
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:29:48 GMT

liz@vfl.paramax.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker) writes:
>|> 
>|> After all, you could end up like this poor sot...
>
>[deleted description of support renegotiations for ultra rich parents]
>
>I don't feel sorry for him.  I wouldn't call him a poor sot.  The numbers
>get a real emotional reaction from those of us who don't have the money to
>live such lifestyles but I don't see why dad should not pay a fair proportion
>of his income for child support.  One lawyer I interviewed when selecting
>a divorce lawyer explained that even if mom doesn't want one cent of dad's
>money he has to pay what the court deems the child is entitled to, given his
>income.  I imagine they also take into consideration mom's income but I don't
>know what else goes into coming up with support payment amounts that can be
>enforced.  I'm not saying it's a perfect system but whether or not this judge
>or anyone thinks the child has too much money available to her because most
>other children don't is not the issue and I think by complaining about spoiling
>the child, that that was what was bothering the judge that dissented, not 
>whether the money was fairly split between the parents.  I'm sure that plenty
>of parents in their social circles spend that kind of money and don't have it
>brought into public view simply bacause they are still married.  The parents
>divorce shouldn't give the courts control over saying whether or not she might
>be spoiled or raised in a way the judge can't comprehend.  I don't know the 
>details in this case and dad's income figures were noticeably absent while 
>mom's were included but given his 10 million in the bank, and I doubt it's in 
>a passbook savings account, he's probably taking in more than the stated 
>income she receives on her millions.

Well, I guess it comes down to one's perception of fair. I would have been 
*much* more ticked had the little twerp actually gotten the pool, car, and 
ring, and the $15,000, but at the same time, I think it's more than a little
fishy that the ex makes a killing on the sale of the company, and days later
the ex little woman is waving her list of demands under a Santa Ana judge's
nose. The report in the San Diego Union said that (I will try and get the
exact phrasing when I go home for Xmas) it was literally within days of the
sale of 3Day Blinds, that Sheryle got her day in court.

>|> My take on the situation, admittedly filtered through my parents and the
>|> local press, is that the ex saw that the former hubby was doing alright
>|> without her, in fact quite a bit better than alright, and decided that her
>|> piece of his pie was *way* too small.
>
>What's wrong with wanting him to pay a fair share?  Everyone is so quick here
>to assign evil intent to the woman and it seems like it's because she's asking
>for him to pay his share.  Perhaps they spent like this before the divorce as
>well.  He was only quoted as complaining that she had enough money.  He wasn't 
>quoted as saying that she'd gone berserk on spending after the divorce.  

Had Sheryle asked for $6,000, you wouldn't have heard a peep from me, even 
though I still think that's a bit much. She didn't. She made (IMHO) 
outrageous demands, and for the most part, got it stuck to her, and that suits
me just fine, thanks. $15,000 is not just excessive, it's grossly excessive. 

The girl's monthly expenses were found to be in the neighborhood of $9,000 per
month. Meaning that this girl *spends* what most of us average joes *earn* a
month. And yes, that's what she's accustomed to, and all that, and that's 
*dandy*, but it has always been my understanding that child-support was to
attend to a child's *needs* (in textbooks only these days, possibly, but that
was always *my* understanding) What child *needs* a Porsche, or for that matter,
needs a free and clear income of $180,000 a year? Merciful heavens....

>Liz Loquacious

Tyger
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