The issue is still churning on my mind. The lack of hope of a way to stop this rort is distressing.
I'm seeing the opportunities for myself and my partner in the future to do something about a home together harmed, the opportunity to get my mortgage paid off gone and the continued pressure to keep earning at a level that's not always easy to maintain for the sake of a corrupt so called child support system that uses a dishonest measure of what it costs to raise a child to prop up a scam.

The lack of recourse to an independent arbitrator, the lack of any kind of fairness test or check, the lack of a review of the relative impacts or need for what's being done is galling.

I want to be able to make a public issue of this but it seems difficult to do so without making an issue for my son which I don't want and there does seem to be a massive community indifference to the corrupt child support system and the incentives it provides to the unethical to do the wrong thing and the harm that inflicts on others.

I don't want this to dominate my life for years to come but every day spending decisions and choices will be impacted by this rort, stuff that I could afford to do when I had full time care of my son (and didn't get money from the ex) is now a difficult choice even working extra hours. Those extra hours result in a greater liability to pay child support.

The system is corrupt, those who take more than a share of what it costs to raise a child are profiteering from their kid's and those who choose to support the system share in the corruption. Their job involves hurting innocent people with a clearly unbalanced abuse of power.

I don't know how much venting helps, it does seem to be of benefit. There seems to be little that I can do right now to get any practical change.