Thus he has a child support and/or alimony order in place based on his $150,000/year pilot salary. If he can’t earn close to $150,000/year he won’t be able to pay this order, in which case he will join the roughly 1 in 7 child support payors who are imprisoned at some point for nonpaymen
I'm not divorced and I'm not an expert on this, however pretty sure that in Australia it's based on what you are actually earning at the time and not what you are earning when you are divorced. If that's true above, no wonder they have issues.