Am I under-employed? Yes. In the sense that I could earn 10-15% more with my skillset in a different field. The court's offset, though, is that by moving to that field the children would have to be cared for every night by a sitter/nanny -- it is my "under-employment" that facilitates my picking them up, doing their projects, making their dinners, etc. The Mouthpiece's take is that the court won't sacrifice the kids' interests for a max 15% reduction in Herself's monthly check-writing. I could earn considerably more by leaving the area and surrendering custody, but of course that's not on from the court's POV. And then there's those dozens of e-mails from Herself over the years saying "whatever you do, don't take a better-paying job, because then the kids would be screwed."
