Judge denies challenge to child support rules

By WHDH-TV Staff and Associated Press

WHDH-TV

updated 12:17 a.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 6, 2009

BOSTON - A federal judge on Monday rejected a bid to stop state family court judges from using new child support guidelines that a fathers' rights group claims are unfair.

Fathers and Families Inc., a Boston-based group that pushes for reform of child custody and support policies, last month sued the state's chief administrative Judge Robert Mulligan and state trial court judges over the new guidelines -- which the group claims are burdensome to fathers and do not take into account the costs of raising children.

What did you think was going to happen that a judge would allow this to happen, Please we all know how judges see fathers and child support, I believe that it is as a ATM machines..