This really p*sses me right off - my children are under my roof 85% of the time and yet this only represents 74% of the cost of raising them.

Since the new formula kicked in on July 1st my child support has dropped 40% and on August 1st, it drops another 16% - since when has raising kids got 56% cheaper ?

I have no grounds to appeal against it, the EX works in a factory and does not earn a great deal, but it's over 3 times what I earn casually.

To compound this, and this part has nothing to do with any government agency - the knobhead lives in a house owned by his parents and pays $130 week rent and had the gaul to ask me for $20 the other week for petrol.

I should dob his parents in, they don't declare that money for tax purposes.