
Who will fight for the rights of military fathers?
Article here. Excerpt:
'Here's a sad but true story. It starts with a young couple living in North Carolina, married two years, wife pregnant, husband in the Army Reserves.
He's deployed to Afghanistan for a year, and she moves to Maryland to live with her parents and newborn daughter. One year later, a week before the child's father comes home from Afghanistan, the wife texts her husband to say she's divorcing him — she claimed abandonment, even though they had kept in touch weekly — and then takes two thirds of the money they had saved.
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The wife had a bachelor's degree and finally decided to get a job. So now they were making close to the same amount, she grossing $2,300 a month and he $2,600. She had the added expense of day care, at $860 a month, but she was still living for free with her parents.
But the court ordered the father to pay $967 a month in child support, which left him $1,200 a month in take home pay to live on. Plus, he can only see his daughter if he goes up to Maryland after the judge said he couldn't take her back to North Carolina for visits because the car ride would be too hard on an 18-month-old. The wife also asked for alimony but that has not been granted so far.'
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