OP you should of taken to the courts regardless of how you feel about your ex. the child support is for the child and all to often one or both parents play to many games with the kid. from screwing around with support to fucking with visitation or fighting with who gets to use the kid when it comes to taxes.
do whats best for your kid and get it settled once and for all in the courts. latter on if you want you can get it ammended but get it settled. cover how much should be paid to whom, who has what custody, and cover the tax issue as well. on the tax issue if you are at 50/50 custody it is often best to just allow her to take odd years and you take even years. otherwise it can result in more fights.
if you do have majority custody and she just has visitation, then you really need to get this all settled in the court. you also should get the full tax credit, and get child support from her. do not pull the whole i do not need her money trip either. the money is for your kid. does not matter if you need it or not. if you have plenty, take the kids support money and place it in a safe fund for her latter on in life. just a parent never should deny funds that should belong to thier child.
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Originally Posted by PurrrsianPussyKat
You guys are funny. SHE HAS NO JOB. How exactly is she supposed to pay him?
Child support is figured out by taking her income and his income and adding it together. This is the amount of money this child should have access to. Then they say well, she makes 20% of the money and he makes 80% and they figure out how much each is responsible for. Seeing as how she makes 0% he's not going to get a dime out of her, and taking her to court will most likely result in him having to pay HER.
Doesn't matter if her bf makes a million dollars a year. That's not HER income, so it's not something they will even look at.
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when my father divorced my mother, he got full custody of myself and my two brothers. he went to the court and got full custody and child support, my mother got limited visitation that was monitored.
she had her wages garnished, so she quit. the courts got involved again and it got to the point that if she did not seek out employment that her skills and experience qualifies her for, or jobs that require less then she would be found in contempt and faced jail time. she eventually fled to another state and thought she would be ok. which she was until the laws changed again in the late 90's and it covered the issue of a parent hiding out in another state.