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[Gaucho Don]

My understanding is that California wants the mother and father to be able to provide the same lifestyle for their kids and that, for child support, it is a very formulaic system based on relative salaries of the two individuals and % of custody time. based on a few examples I've heard about, $30,000/month ($360,000/year) actually doesn't seem out of the ballpark when Matt is making what, $8 million/year?

How anyone can spend $30k per month on taking care of a child, I don't know, but it doesn't seem unlikely to happen, especially if she has custody 99% of the time as the article states. If he wants to keep the number down, he should try to get more custody, I'm sure something could be worked out where he had him a big chunk of the time during basketball season and she had him a big chunk of the time during football season and they trade him back and forth the rest of the time. The kid will suffer from being shuttled around all the time, but that's the way it goes.

Kids are definitely the biggest loser in breakups, but I'm sure it's better than being dead!

I don't see how anyone's life is ruined here? Everyone definitely has some hardships, but there is enough money to go around to make it easier than say, two college students who aren't going to get professional football/basketball money who are in the same situation?

Anyway, good luck to Brynn, Matt and especially Cole!

Editted to Add: I was curious and searched for the formula and found this calculator. Matt needs to pay it and shut up:

http://www.west.net/~ivguy/testcalc.html
based on the 6 year $51 mil contract ($8.5mil/year or approx $700,000 per month... I'm sure its smaller at the beginning, but the avg is probably close enough) and a guess that while in school/basketball she probably isn't making more than $2k/month even assuming they count her scholly as income, which would be an interesting argument)... at 50% custody for one child, the formula came up with approx $60k/month. He'd have to have custody about 70% of the time in order for the formula to be about $30k/month. Compared to what she is probably entitled to under the law, she seems to be making a reasonable request.

[caune]

First, how do you know they were having unprotected sex? The pill and condems are not 100% there are risks to all behaviors.

Now about Matt, he visits his child every week...but as Bryn says he doesn't do any of the work, well visits aren't work so you get her point...but Matt has filed for partial custody (every other weekend and summers) so he seems willing to do at least some of his part.

Finally the judge awarded her $15,000.00 a month in child support

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