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KOPV maybe due to your experience, you are looking at Jermaine's situation in the same way, and it may not be the case. I agree with you in some respects:
-I am a woman and know for a fact that many women spend the child support mainly on themselves.
-I know that the courts will give a big award to the first woman who goes for child support, and then the current wife and children do have less & become restricted financially. (That is why men/women should be careful of what they do.)
-It is true that some men do give their children much aid, even though they are behind in child support, e.g., they pay the school fees, buy the clothes, buy food, pay for vacations, pay for extracurricular activities, send them pocket money, pay the rent, pay for the technology.
-It is true that Alejandra could try to get a regular job and find an apt for her children.
In spite of all that^^, Jermaine still has to give child support for the children he brought into this world. There is no evidence that Jermaine is paying for all the above listed items/support for the children^^ because 1) they lived in Michael's home and Michael paid for food & shelter. Plus, Alejandra even said Katherine gave her money, & we all know where that money came from.
2) If he was giving all that support but not paying the child support, all that information would show up, because Jermaine would list all the things he paid for and show the receipts totaling monies in excess of the $3,000. He would bring that to court to show the judge that each month he gives more than $3,000 to his children.
4) If he had the money he would not risk international ridicule with the passport issue last year, begging the estate for help last year, or being shamed with the passport incident this year to name a few. The estate would not have to give Katherine the loan to help Jermaine pay the support and then offer a condo to Alejandra so that she could leave that house. (We all know about the incident where she refused to leave the house & that embarrassing situation.) Now after reading that Jermaine did not want the court information about his lack of work, debt, & child support problems made public, why would you think he would allow all this public shaming/disclosure, if he had the money to give this woman? He would give her the $3,000 and keep his image intact as the rich sun guy.
5) Even though a woman may spend most of the child support on herself, you can't punish your children by withholding the payment. Doing that just allowed Michael to be abused & stressed because he had to take up the slack and pay for much of those children's needs. If a woman spends most of the money on herself and neglects the children, then the man needs to get proof of how the children are neglected and bring it to the court. If you have that proof the courts would gladly give you temporary custody of the children and then you do not have to pay child support. The woman would get a case with the child protective services if you do it right.
I still don't think he bought that car because he thought Katherine was getting the money from AEG. Maybe he wanted to show that the AEG verdict would mean nothing to him because right before the verdict was reached he was able to go out and buy an expensive car. Another reason could be what Alicat said about him trying to show that not paying child support does not mean he has no money.
Thank you Petra Rose
For this beautiful post!