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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How can any court find that a child needs $58k/month for expenses?
gpt
Is this about child support?

In which case, child support is not strictly about the amount a child needs (which is always going to be a debatable thing). The courts also aim to give the children a continuous standard of care. Meaning that if the child is already used to going to a private school, for example, when the parents divorce, the courts aim to set child support at such a level where both parents can continue to keep sending the child to private school. They also try and eliminate huge disparities between the level of care the child would have at one parent and what they would receive at the other, which can also be done through a higher than normal child support contribution.

Of course, the kind of people who are paying 58k a month in child support, are also earning money in such huge quantities that this is just a drop in the bucket for them.