When celebrities pay HUGE child support.....

[PaulaSB12]

How do these women survive after the child support ends? Because at some point its going to stop.

 

[Robinrs]

 

[ericamanda01]

Yikes, I mean he MADE a MILLION dollars a month!!!!! He had to pay about $28,000 out monthly.

Woooo, I'd deliberately marry and divorce him for that amount!!!! Troll that he is..

My old boss was Willie Gary.... http://massachusettsfamilylaw.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-much-child-support-do-you-pay-if.html

His child support was recently dropped to $5000 a month because the children's mother was spending the money on herself rather than the children.

 

[ericamanda01]

Loverly/Jb, Shay and lily, here are your answers:

WG owned the Black Family Channel. I was the traffic mgr there from 2005 to 2007 when they stopped broadcasting.

Since Willie Gary was part owner with Cecil Fielder, Evander Holyfield, Marlon Jackson of the Jackson Five, and Alvin James, how were they to work for?

 

[RUDisney]

While I agree that celebs should have to pay child support in an amount that hurts a little, just like CS does to the average working citizen.

I recently heard about a celebrity who was doing nothing to help his ailing mother. She was living in abject poverty, not able to pay for her prescriptions. My aunt was one of her visiting nurses. She became furious that this woman was living like this when her DS was making gobs of money each year performing. She was finally able to reach him after talking to dozens of his people going up the food chain. He pretended not to "realize" how his mother was feeling and how she was living. He was guilted into building her a new house that didn't leak and actually had insulation, etc. He agreed to pay for her health insurance and her medical expenses.

Evidently, everything had been about HIM for so long that he forgot that decent people help their aging parents in the ways that they can.

What type of person wouldn't help their parents when there is no estrangement already existing?

 

[undercovermom]

while I agree with you, PD, that there are obvious abuses...when you set child support for the 2 year old you are also setting support for the 16 year old. what a child needs at 2 and what he needs at 16 are far different. you can't win an argument with "so what does a 2 year old need anyhow?"

a celebrity who has custody of his/her children is going to give them a lavish lifestyle. you cannot penalize the child whose parents aare not together, you have to give them the same benefits as if the parents were together. and if the celebrity parent has other children living with him/her...you'd be setting up a very unhealthy emotional environment.

and to arbitrarily set uo a limit of $100K...you don't have any idea about the cost of living in NY, do you?

you cannot tell people who have custody of their kids how much to spend on them. so why are you trying to control child support?

yes there are gold diggers and the kanye west song resonates. but you can't tell people how to raise their children.

 

[Robinrs]

Since Willie Gary was part owner with Cecil Fielder, Evander Holyfield, Marlon Jackson of the Jackson Five, and Alvin James, how were they to work for?

Marlon left with Alvin shortly after I started working there. The best thing about having him as an owner was we had lots of access to the Jackson programming, cheap for us!

Cecil was the most constant supporter, he was also the nicest. Evander only came up for the meetings so I didn't get a chance to deal with him much, wow, a HANDSOME man up close! Willie also only showed up when there was bad news... and when he gave us a reason for why our paychecks were LATE.

Robert Townsend was our Program Director and he was a doll. All in all I'd say they did shoddy business, which is why the station folded. It was a great place to work because the people were awesome, and some of them are still out of work!

 

[Disney Doll]

Well, realistically, if a child's parent is making millions of dollars per year, why shouldn't their child reap the benefit of having a lifestyle that that kind of $$ would support? If Mommy & Daddy had been able to stay together, a celebrity's child would be living a certain lifestyle...why should the child's lifestyle change dramatically because of their parents' issues????

Realistically, there are people of all income levels raising children. So should we say "Because Joe & Mary Smith in Idaho can raise a child on $1000/month, Bill & Jane Jones in Manhattan should be able to do the same."? Different areas of the country require different amounts of money in terms of cost of living.

I do agree that if I was the custodial parent of celebrity child, that I would be using a certain amount of that $$ to raise the child and I'd be putting the rest of it into some sort of savings, trust, investment, whatever, so that if my child's celebrity parent ever hit the skids, my child would still be provided for by my wise investment of the big bucks while they were coming in.

 

[Loverly]

Loverly/Jb, Shay and lily, here are your answers:

WG owned the Black Family Channel. I was the traffic mgr there from 2005 to 2007 when they stopped broadcasting.

:

MY DH works for a company owned by several silent partners. None of them are there. He has met and conversed with one -a prominent Doctor- at the Christmas party. He would never refer to this man as "his boss"
His boss is his Sales manager.

 

[Doesney]

How is this any different from you average joe who makes 100K paying his fair share of let's say 1500 monthly? If a man makes millions annually, it is his fair share. I don't get the difference.

 

[Charade]

While I agree that celebs should have to pay child support in an amount that hurts a little, just like CS does to the average working citizen.

I recently heard about a celebrity who was doing nothing to help his ailing mother. She was living in abject poverty, not able to pay for her prescriptions. My aunt was one of her visiting nurses. She became furious that this woman was living like this when her DS was making gobs of money each year performing. She was finally able to reach him after talking to dozens of his people going up the food chain. He pretended not to "realize" how his mother was feeling and how she was living. He was guilted into building her a new house that didn't leak and actually had insulation, etc. He agreed to pay for her health insurance and her medical expenses.

Evidently, everything had been about HIM for so long that he forgot that decent people help their aging parents in the ways that they can.

What type of person wouldn't help their parents when there is no estrangement already existing?

CS should be punitive? Really?

 

[Robinrs]

MY DH works for a company owned by several silent partners. None of them are there. He has met and conversed with one -a prominent Doctor- at the Christmas party. He would never refer to this man as "his boss"
His boss is his Sales manager.

We called him 'the boss' because he was over everyone else. My direct boss was the VP of Operations... but when HE said the "boss" was coming, we knew who he was talking about. It was a very small business.

Next time I'll just say my boss' boss' boss... is that better?

I'll make sure I don't call Ted Turner 'my boss', either... which I would never do.

 

[PaulaSB12]

While I agree that celebs should have to pay child support in an amount that hurts a little, just like CS does to the average working citizen.

I recently heard about a celebrity who was doing nothing to help his ailing mother. She was living in abject poverty, not able to pay for her prescriptions. My aunt was one of her visiting nurses. She became furious that this woman was living like this when her DS was making gobs of money each year performing. She was finally able to reach him after talking to dozens of his people going up the food chain. He pretended not to "realize" how his mother was feeling and how she was living. He was guilted into building her a new house that didn't leak and actually had insulation, etc. He agreed to pay for her health insurance and her medical expenses.

Evidently, everything had been about HIM for so long that he forgot that decent people help their aging parents in the ways that they can.

What type of person wouldn't help their parents when there is no estrangement already existing?

How do you know there wasn't an estrangement?

 

[SHAYMARAYSMOM]

Loverly/Jb, Shay and lily, here are your answers:

WG owned the Black Family Channel. I was the traffic mgr there from 2005 to 2007 when they stopped broadcasting.

I left the senior citizen home to go back to broadcasting. I worked at Big Bethel Village for a year and a half after my parent's died because I needed to take care of some old folks.

In the 80s and 90s I worked for radio and TV till I worked for the Sr Citizens home.

Right out of college I worked for Macmilan Publishing in Publicity.

I worked on Bway in NY in the 70s when I was with the Davis Ctr of Performing arts.

I counsel people who have lost children because I lost a child in 1986. My team trained me to counsel them because they needed to talk to someone who had been there. It is not my profession, it is my ministry.

Anyone who wants to know more about me or a copy of my resume can PM me.

Have a lovely weekend.

Not sure what the offer of your resume is about.
But my post was a joke

 

[Robinrs]

Not sure what the offer of your resume is about.
But my post was a joke

The others know what I meant... sorry if I mistook your post as another poke instead of a joke.

 

[EMom]

Britney spends more on Starbucks or trashy undies (which she refuses to wear) than she pays Kevin in CS. Before her dad took over her money, she was spending $750,000 a month. She can afford $25,000 for CS. That may sound like a lot to most Americans, but in LA, $300,000 a year isn't a fortune. Kevin can't live in your average apartment. Nope, Brit's kids probably have to live in a gated compound to protect them from the presss. That costs $$$$$ to pay for and maintain. And say what you will about the guy, he DOES keep those kids out of the tabloids, which is more than she ever did. Doubtless they need bodyguards. Again, $$$$$$. Can't put them in the corner daycare Chunk-a-Punk. Think of all the photos for sale! Noooo.....private nannies for that single dad. Don't think they can fly coach without getting mobbed. First class costs $$$$$$. By virtue of being HER kids, they are press-worthy and will always need to be protected. That doesn't come cheap.

People ride that guy's rear end, and heaven knows I'm no fan....But it seems those kids are definitely with the more stable parent. Even if he's motivated partly by money, at least that shows he has some self-discipline and control, which is better than Britney. And I cannot remember the last time I've seen a pic of those kids on the tabloid rack at Walmart, barely strapped in their carseats, looking like little deer in the headlights.

 

[SHAYMARAYSMOM]

The others know what I meant... sorry if I mistook your post as another poke instead of a joke.

Okay if you feel a need to pm your resmue i will look it over for you

 

[RUDisney]

CS should be punitive? Really?

Not punitive, but it does sting the person making $100,000 per year to write the check for $1,500. It wouldn't hurt a celeb to write a check for $1,500, that's just a couple pairs of shoes for some. A $25,000 per month check would sting a little and remind the celeb of the child(ren) that they are supporting, even if it's written by an assistant.

 

[RUDisney]

How do you know there wasn't an estrangement?

There were never bad words spoken between them. He got caught up in his life and wasn't worrying about how his mother was doing.