This might explain his choice of roles in the past decade. This dude is taking on jobs that even Nicolas Cage and Eugene Levy would pass on.

Don't care, he was the shiz in School Ties, and that's a fact.

$900K in child support?
 Damn, the price of Froot Loops, skateboards, and tuition must have skyrocketed since the last time I looked.

TommyymmoT: $900K in child support?
 Damn, the price of Froot Loops, skateboards, and tuition must have skyrocketed since the last time I looked.

I always wondered why the amount was based on previous lifestyle. If it was me I would want my kids to have enough, but it seems odd that it should be mandated that they get the best.

I prefer to remember him as such:

TommyymmoT: $900K in child support?
 Damn, the price of Froot Loops, skateboards, and tuition must have skyrocketed since the last time I looked.

I think the courts always calculate a hefty percentage of your income, like 10% of your monthly income or 110% of what they used to get, whichever is what they deem you can afford. 

Also, there's an easy way to reduce that payment: get full or partial custody. Surely this is something he agreed to.

900,000 per year. Seems reasonable.

Maybe he could go live in an underground bunker somewhere.

He's no Jack Black, and that's a good thing

whistleridge: TommyymmoT: $900K in child support?
 Damn, the price of Froot Loops, skateboards, and tuition must have skyrocketed since the last time I looked.

I think the courts always calculate a hefty percentage of your income, like 10% of your monthly income or 110% of what they used to get, whichever is what they deem you can afford. 

Also, there's an easy way to reduce that payment: get full or partial custody. Surely this is something he agreed to.

Hahahahaha oh man.  I pay like 35% a week and my ex-wife makes twice what i do.  10% is cute though.

EvilEgg: I always wondered why the amount was based on previous lifestyle

Because we were farking retarded when we wrote these laws?

I mean, come on. Look at this dead beat. Can't afford to give his kid one million US$ every year??

You'd think he could cut back on his daily bottle of $2k buck chuck until his kid can afford some new shoes and a school supplies?

900k a year probably sounded reasonable to him when he was making millions per picture.  Good for him for being generous to his family in good times.  Now that he's not the hot commodity he once was, the payments should be reduced.

Evenbiggerknickers: I prefer to remember him as such:

So much this.

KiwDaWabbit: Warlordtrooper: 900,000.... something is wrong with our Divorce Courts in this country.

Which is why men often stay in miserable marriages as long as they can.

Or single.

lacydog: Rose McGowan in a cat costume

How the hell did that get past me?

Colour_out_of_Space: Child support should be based on what the kids need, rather than how much the parent may be able to afford.

It's also based on maintaining the lifestyle that the child is used to, provided the non-custodial parent *can* pay for it. That being said, I had a friend years ago who was living in his truck homeless due to child support payments. He had gone to court multiple times to get it reduced, and the judge literally told him that a place to live was not 'a necessity'. Mutual friends allowed him to use their apartment for the weekends he had the boys (or he'd get a cheap hotel, he NEVER had them sleep in the truck). His ex-wife cheated on him with his best friend, and made substantially more money than he did. She was doing this to him because she could, and actually felt JUSTIFIED in doing so.

I have a background in clinical psych. and his sheer farking hatred of his ex was poisoning his kids. He wasn't consciously badmouthing her, but he was doing it all the time. It was making the boys anxious. I'll tell you what a good father this man was, he listened to what I had to say, heard it, and modified his behavior. I never heard him say another bad thing about their mother in their presence again.

But my other prediction was right. Kids grew up, and figured out the real score without dad having to say a thing. They do not speak to their stepfather, and their relationship with their mother is strained because she spent those years still treating them like a tool to fark with her ex.

They adore their father, he's their hero. And he busted his ass to be a great dad in all the ways that truly matter. And it isn't money.

Anyway, I was like 19 when I knew Mark (guy with the kids) and it opened my eyes to the absolute batshiattery of the family courts. I give the same advice to everyone with kids in a breakup...do everything you possibly can for your kids, and don't discuss relationship details with them while they are kids. They don't need to know who did what to whom. They don't need to be pushed into taking any sides. The goal is supposed to be to raise healthy, sane, people who can take care of themselves and be reasonably happy. Remember?

/has no kids. Will never have any.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: How could the master thesbian who brought us Encino Man have fallen on such hard times?

Is that a new term for a lesbian thespian?