To Whom It May Concern:

My name is William C. Neuendorf and I have been paying child support for over 15 ½ years. It's unfortunate that child support is so easily enforced while visitation (parenting time) is not. If child support could be changed so that it is not so negative towards the parent paying it, perhaps more parents would be likely to participate. What negatives you ask?

01. The idea that a parent is paying because he (or she) is usually only granted visitation (a weekend here

and there). Imagine paying for a new car that you couldn't drive while parked at someone else's home.

02. A parent pays and pays support with no idea where the money goes?

03. A non-custodial parent paying support receives no tax break and is forced to claim the income.

04. The Payee strives to get ahead by working a second job or accepting more overtime only to be

penalized. This makes no sense when you try to better yourself and pay more in taxes and risk paying

more in support!

The solution may be simpler than you think. Let's be reasonable with the amounts. The idea of a children's credit card where the custodial parent could charge children's necessities to show where the money is spent versus an account of purchases. It troubles me that I've been told by Friend of the Court employees that support is easily enforced but visitation is much harder. We've always been told that support should not reflect on visitation. Well, maybe it should! Base support on a nominal amount of visitation. Where as any more or less visitation would result in a reduction in support. I hate to say it but if money is all the custodial parent understands, then perhaps that's what will have to be done in order to make it easier for the Friend of the Court to enforce. It is far beyond me why, when the non-custodial parent pays such large amounts in support they must fight for any right to tax benefits regarding the children. If the custodial parent is in that great of need for financial help than they really don't need the tax benefit of claiming the children, right? In a perfect world, there would be no divorces or Friend of the Court or fighting parents. In a slightly perfect world there might be some divorces but parents would all get along and follow the rules of the court and it's offices. In today's world we are not that fortunate and many parents will use whatever means available to them to sway things one way or another to benefit themselves. And that being the case all to often we must derive some solution that makes it much easier to enforce and promote parents to be "good" parents. So I ask you to review these suggestions and please "use your best judgement".