Child support for your kids kids.

Should the long arm of the law reach further back?

  • Yes, hook G'ma and G'pa up with some grandchild support

    Votes: 5 8.1%

  • No, not their responsibility.

    Votes: 57 91.9%
  • Total voters
    62
DoWhat

DoWhat

Deplorable
PREMO Member
daisycreek said:
If the parents of the child (baby) are under 18, then the grandparent of the non-custodial parent is responsible for making the child support payments,

and if custodial parent is under 18 as well the payments go to the custodial grandparents
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You are smart.
Have you been there, or are you a lawyer?
 
Suz

Suz

33 yrs & we r still n luv
Larry Gude said:
Not sure how much Pete is being serious and how much he's just entertaining himself playing the 'who can be the bigger victim' game, so, let's just take it at face value;

If the grandparents can be held responsible, why not the great grandparents? There's plenty of them alive these days. And if them, why not the great, great grandparents? All dead and gone? Just establish what was inherited from them and go after that?

Run on sentence ahead; I would argue that too many lawyers arguing that someone else is responsible for X/Y/Z etc is one of the core problems with our society in the first place and, based on that, I would argue against going back in time and creating a whole new level of responsibilities and it would certainly require all sorts of lawyers in order to argue cases, for and against, where this grandparent is better than that parent and thus gets custody which then leads to the OTHER parent coming back on the scene to not only argue THEY are now the better parent because they got their life together but that now some OTHER grandparent who had nothing to do with this owes them money to help raise the child 'properly' and yet another generation of kids is taught to view the world ever more cynically.

Talk of this kind all leads back to one place; the village. Run by the government.
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Interesting idea! However, in the state of Md, grandparents have NO RIGHTS. Believe me I know, compliments of our local 'grand' attorney Mr. Mattingly. Mystical Mom was with me and heard the very same words. So, while the ideal thing would be to have the grandparents responsible for supporting said grandchild, how can it be enforced if we have no rights? As a matter of fact, VERY few states give grandparents rights.


"Talk of this kind all leads back to one place; the village. Run by the government." amen.
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zyrne

New Member
If you're going to go after grandparents, because they're family.....don't forget about all the other targets.

Siblings
Cousins
Aunts & Uncles
Hell....let's go after the in-laws too, they married in, we can hold them responsible too.

The possibilities are limitless....this should have every lawyer in the land frothing at the mouth.....

What SHOULD people do...and what you can FORCE people to do, are 2 different things.

You simply can't 'successfully' legislate morality or ethics.
You can pass the laws, but getting them enforced evenly, fairly, or at all....that's another ball game altogether.
 
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01mds10

New Member
zyrne said:
If you're going to go after grandparents, because they're family.....don't forget about all the other targets.

Siblings
Cousins
Aunts & Uncles
Hell....let's go after the in-laws too, they married in, we can hold them responsible too.

The possibilities are limitless....this should have every lawyer in the land frothing at the mouth.....

What SHOULD people do...and what you can FORCE people to do, are 2 different things.

You simply can't 'successfully' legislate morality or ethics.
You can pass the laws, but getting them enforced evenly, fairly, or at all....that's another ball game altogether.
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they already do, by raising our taxes every year to pay for all these worthless ####s.
 
Beta84

Beta84

They're out to get us
Pete said:
After reading the Story of Che it made me wonder why courts in their every lengthening reach haven't reached back to the grandparents for child support when their spawn has refused to pay their ordered support.
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if the parent is under 18, makes sense. otherwise, it's not their responsibility. why don't we charge their aunts, uncles, friends, and anyone else associated with them until someone pays up!
 
SoccerMom2

SoccerMom2

New Member
The only people who should be responsible for paying for the child is the people who had and made them! I don't care what age you are. Sex isn't something new. If you have sex you can get pregnant everyone knows that. If you can't deal with the results with having sex then don't have sex! It's bad enough taxes payers have to pay for the people who have tons of babies by several different guys.
 
daisycreek

daisycreek

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Suz said:
Interesting idea! However, in the state of Md, grandparents have NO RIGHTS. Believe me I know/QUOTE]



Grandparent rights are governed by the Maryland Statutes, specifically § 9-102 of the Family Law Article:

An equity court may:

(1) consider a petition for reasonable visitation of a grandchild by a grandparent; and

(2) if the court finds it to be in the best interests of the child, grant visitation rights to the grandparent.
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CalvertNewbie

Guest
SoccerMom2 said:
The only people who should be responsible for paying for the child is the people who had and made them! I don't care what age you are. Sex isn't something new. If you have sex you can get pregnant everyone knows that. If you can't deal with the results with having sex then don't have sex! It's bad enough taxes payers have to pay for the people who have tons of babies by several different guys.
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Well said, couldn't agree with you more. If my brother knocked someone up and became a deadbeat, I'd probably already be paying for their lack of responsibility in my taxes. Why should I be charged twice for a family member's actions? :killingme
 
Suz

Suz

33 yrs & we r still n luv
RareBreed

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
pixiegirl said:
I'd be fighting for that baby.
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Friends of ours just went through a similar thing. Son and DIL live out of state and are big time into drugs. Had a baby and continued the life-style. Son was wanted out of MD and recently got busted while back home visiting. Our friends told their son that if he came back to MD, he'd be arrested and sure enough was. The DIL ended up getting busted for drugs and the baby was placed in foster care. Friends went to the Court and got temporary custody and are planning on asking for full custody. These people are in their 50's and now have to raise a baby.

Oh.. when the kid was taken away from mom, it was determined that the baby had several broken bones too. :frown:
 
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