Muchemi ruled the woman must find alternative sources of income as bringing up the kid is a shared responsibility for both parents.
JWM had sued the man named CKK who earns KSh 100,000 a month for the support and custody of the minor.
The woman also wanted her former lover to cater for his school fees and medical expenses.
On August 2018, the court accepted her demand for custody but granted the man visit rights.
Cases of women seeking child support have been on the increase in recent years amid the tough economic times worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In September 2020, a court in Mombasa ruled child upkeep should not be used as women’s source of income proving a sigh of relief for men.
Justice Mugure Thande of the Family Division of the High Court made the landmark ruling in a case that involved a man identified as DN and a woman named CM whose marriage hit the rocks in 2016.
In this, the court suspended an order by the Children’s Court requiring a man to bear 70% of parental responsibility saying this was punitive on the male child arguing it also negated the equality principle in parental responsibility.
I think child support should be based on some percentage of what the woman earns kama mama anatoa 5 sousands kila mwezi ya maintenance
baba ya huyo mutoto atoe the same amount. kama mama hana kazi mtoto akae na baba yake or the father agrees to some reasonable amount
My brother had the same issues. Then I chanuad him. Kids are in school go to the school ask for the kids details. At the beginning of the term enda bank lipa fees, pitia kwa mtoto mpatie slip na pocket money.
He has two health insurance covers and his kids are listed. Mtoto akikua mgonjwa the mum takes him/her to hospital, insurance does the rest of kuna kitu sio covered lipa and be on the way
Every once in a long while pitia supermarket nunua vitu pelekea watoto, make sure to have a few selfies with the kids.
Nilikua nimeonea his ex 18!
When she went to the children’s office demanding cash. My brother said No, when we went to court his ex was flabbergasted. Picha zilitolewa, receipts, and printout from the insurance companies. The judge just told the woman she should never ever bring such a case to court ever again, praised my brother for the good work.
Outside the court the children’s officer hakua anataka kuona my ex in law.
While at the children’s office I told my brother to refuse all the demands angojee court.
The ex was left high and dry. My brother used to withdraw cash anampatia like half his salary.
What if the mother is a poor jobless peasant living in Kibera slums in those mud houses alafu apeleke mtoto Peponi school where the fees per term is Ksh200000? Will it be fair for the father?
Feminism got everything wrong. Men are realising that equality is actually ok, and they are slowly adjusting. By the turn of this century, the few remaining people will probably be equal.
I like the fact that hakuna mtu anaweza sema amechezwa vilee. It is oki to try and be equal…I don’t think we will actually ever even this out per se because at the mo mothers and children are given better treatment huku in the west where it all kicked off.
But we are in a good place. Hiyo kidnapping ya mtoto on Katony’s post would have dire repercussions here…