“How am I going to pay for all this?”
Tiffany sighed as she waded through the bills.
“Eddie’s ski trip to the Alps, Emma’s origami intensive, Michael’s turtle collection sent from South Africa.
I just can’t afford these basic needs!”
“MOM!!” Four year old Emma came running. “Madame Vartaniansky says I need to buy a pink tutu
for our Swan dance. It’s $250.”
“$250?” Tiffany gasped. “You don’t even know how to point your feet yet!”
“But we can afford it! We’re millionaires!” Emma cheered.
“We’re Multi-millionaires, actually,” declared Eddie. “But the Pattersons next door are billionaires cuz they
just bought their third Porsche but we only have 2 Volvos!”
“Children, please, it’s not polite to talk about money. In any event, now that daddy and I are separated,
we have to tighten our belts.”
Michael ran in. “Just talked to Daddy. He’s in a silly mood. He keeps singing: ‘I’m in the money…! '
He doubled my allowance 'cuz he just got a big contract that doubles his income. It’s fun being rich!”
“We’re not rich. Our pants are really tight now,” Emma declared smartly.
Tiffany dropped her pen. “Daddy doubled his income?
He’s earning 4 million a year while I’m practically cutting coupons?”
“Mom! It’s not polite to talk about money!” Eddie reminded her.
Tiffany ran to the phone to call her husband. “I believe the song goes, ‘WE’RE in the money!
Sounds like it’s time to revise your support payments.”
Edward grunted back. “Tiffany, you’re getting a huge monthly amount.
I thought we didn’t want to spoil the kids.”
“You’re just being a selfish brute. Hoarding OUR money while I can barely afford exotic turtles and tutus.”
Tiffany seethed with anger. “I’m calling my lawyer.”
The lawyer reviewed the file. “We’ll ask for $65,000 a month, considering his income.”
The Trial Judge granted $16,000 a month.
Tiffany appealed.
Tiffany was petulant. “$65,000 a month is perfectly reasonable for all my kids’ needs.
Golf club, yacht, country house, ski chalet, vacation monies.
Our children have a right to the expanded lifestyle which their father now enjoys.”
Edward took the moral road. “Tiffany always agreed that children should not be raised as spoiled brats.
She is being a hypocrite asking for all that money. What will happen to our children’s values?”
How much should Tiffany get? YOU! Be The Judge. Then look below for the court’s decision.
“Mr. Hudson, pay a children’s allowance of $36,000 a month,” the Appeal Court decided.
“The Trial Judge was right to keep in mind the children’s past standard of living.
But the children also have a right to enjoy the benefits now made possible
by their father’s hard work and talent.
Somewhere in the middle seems the way to go!”
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