ThePlane22
Junior Member
Wisconsin, Brown County.
If you have joint legal custody, and shared placement, with a child support order to pay half of medical bills each, but 1 parent solely decides to have a medical procedure done that is not life threatening, such as getting braces at early age, can the parent who was excluded in the decision process opt out of paying for that process on that basis?
Basically my ex took my son to the orthodontist for a consultation. He is covered by my insurance so i gave her the card to bill the insurance for his consultation. She calls me a month later stating they are at his appointment and she needs 100 dollars from me right away or they will refuse treatment. I was not made aware that he was getting any treatment. She took him for his consultation and then again to get braces on.. He is 7 years old with literally 2 braces and 2 brackets in his mouth. That's all the adult teeth he has on top. They are doing this to correct an overbite, which i too had as a kid, but mine was not fixed or even worked on until 6th grade. She has been really bad about not telling me about any of his appointments, his teacher conferences or any of his out of school activities. I work 6 days on 2 off, so I only get to have him on those days, plus all morning in the summer. The court agreement is a shared placement of approx 33% and i pay apporox 17% child support(the max allowed) and i am also responsible to pay half of his medical bills, like his meds, doctors appointments etc. Keep in mind i also have insurance for him, which thankfully is quite good. But i dont feel i should be paying 450 of 900 on braces that i had no opinion on. Not to mention it is 1800 billed to my insurance, which picked up half. And he is likely to need full mouth of braces later, that will not be covered in this 1800 dollar procedure now. Please Help!
If you have joint legal custody, and shared placement, with a child support order to pay half of medical bills each, but 1 parent solely decides to have a medical procedure done that is not life threatening, such as getting braces at early age, can the parent who was excluded in the decision process opt out of paying for that process on that basis?
Basically my ex took my son to the orthodontist for a consultation. He is covered by my insurance so i gave her the card to bill the insurance for his consultation. She calls me a month later stating they are at his appointment and she needs 100 dollars from me right away or they will refuse treatment. I was not made aware that he was getting any treatment. She took him for his consultation and then again to get braces on.. He is 7 years old with literally 2 braces and 2 brackets in his mouth. That's all the adult teeth he has on top. They are doing this to correct an overbite, which i too had as a kid, but mine was not fixed or even worked on until 6th grade. She has been really bad about not telling me about any of his appointments, his teacher conferences or any of his out of school activities. I work 6 days on 2 off, so I only get to have him on those days, plus all morning in the summer. The court agreement is a shared placement of approx 33% and i pay apporox 17% child support(the max allowed) and i am also responsible to pay half of his medical bills, like his meds, doctors appointments etc. Keep in mind i also have insurance for him, which thankfully is quite good. But i dont feel i should be paying 450 of 900 on braces that i had no opinion on. Not to mention it is 1800 billed to my insurance, which picked up half. And he is likely to need full mouth of braces later, that will not be covered in this 1800 dollar procedure now. Please Help!