Shawn Kemp Quotes

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

Many states favor joint custody.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.