Pearl - June 07, 2025


One Man Had 15 Child Support Cases at Once w⧸ @thisisshah


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

218.72841

Word count

422

Sentence count

6

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Summary

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In this episode we talk about the California Child Support system, how it works, and why it sucks. We also talk about how much money you should be getting in order to pay for child support and how much you should pay for it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 more of a risk if you do the like trad thing have a bunch of kids right yeah yeah oh yeah i mean you
00:00:05.440 can end up with you know two kids one kid will be about 25 that's what we're talking about two kids
00:00:09.920 will be about like 40 and then holy yeah 40 of the net income and then three guys are gonna be like
00:00:16.640 i'm one kid yeah then it'll hit like 55 and then it'll it'll eventually hit some maximum but at
00:00:22.400 that point there was a guy it was up to 55 that is so yeah it reaches some maximum pre-tax or
00:00:30.240 um well that's that's that's net what uh the amount of child support that percentage applies
00:00:36.720 to their net earnings so it's uh the calculator at least the california one takes out it does
00:00:42.080 the taxes so you'll put in your dependents and stuff like that there was a case and i swear to
00:00:46.720 god we used to show this to i became a trainer for a little bit too but even when i got hired on
00:00:51.200 the lady who was training me she was really funny she would always tell me 1.00
00:00:55.700 she's just like if you're ever gonna get married ask for their credit report you 0.99
00:00:59.200 better ask for their credit report okay anyways that's just funny that's good
00:01:02.660 advice though yeah but she would she had this specific case and this guy I swear
00:01:08.060 to God he had like 50 he had like at least 14 or 15 cases and some of them
00:01:13.700 with multiple kids on it this guy was legendary amongst the office and the
00:01:19.760 The thing is, I think he just worked like some normal job, so child support had no choice
00:01:26.300 but to just try to get a percentage based off however this calculator, because they
00:01:30.840 could only get so much out of this one turnip.
00:01:34.340 Some of the kids would have a $12 order, some would be getting three bucks a month, some
00:01:37.940 of them had a prior one.
00:01:39.280 No way.
00:01:40.280 Yeah, but this guy, he was going to be a lifer, because some of them, he owed hundreds
00:01:43.380 of thousands.
00:01:44.380 There was no way he was ever going to be able to pay this off, and you can't bankrupt the
00:01:47.000 debt.
00:01:48.000 he would pay his payments you know we'd have to work and say okay well this is your paycheck
00:01:52.640 you got to at least pay us this much and somehow he was doing that so