GoodSingleDad
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
Some background: I am a single dad who won custody of my two daughters in 2009. Mother was ordered to pay child support based on her low part-time income even though she had a teaching degree and could have worked full-time making more than double her part-time pay. In 2014, the mother finally took the teaching job but tried to hide it because she knew the increase would result in her paying more support. When I finally found out, I asked FL DOR to do a review and after 9 weeks they sent us both a letter stating (obviously) that her support will be increased and by how much. Of course, the mother objected which caused the case to go before the open "cattle" court. When our case finally came up, the mother cried and carried on about how poor she is and gained the sympathy of the child support hearing officer, whom took it upon himself to run a few fudged scenarios on his laptop and ignore the department's review, even though no one had requested him to do so. He came up with several wildly varying support scenarios, ranging from a large increase to a decrease. The judge then denied the increase based on "lack of supporting evidence for a modification."
Now the mother is suing for a decrease based on one of these fudged scenarios. My concern is she may get it because my experience has been the courts are biased against men especially when it comes to matters of money. MY daughters are both in their teens now and the costs to support them have skyrocketed. The mother just does not want to support her children.
In my mind, FLDOR is clearly responsible for this debacle for allowing the officer to ignore their own review and now allowing the mother to think she can get out of supporting our children.
Can FLDOR be sued for the amount of support my children will lose from now until they are 18 because of reckless and wrongful determination of support?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Some background: I am a single dad who won custody of my two daughters in 2009. Mother was ordered to pay child support based on her low part-time income even though she had a teaching degree and could have worked full-time making more than double her part-time pay. In 2014, the mother finally took the teaching job but tried to hide it because she knew the increase would result in her paying more support. When I finally found out, I asked FL DOR to do a review and after 9 weeks they sent us both a letter stating (obviously) that her support will be increased and by how much. Of course, the mother objected which caused the case to go before the open "cattle" court. When our case finally came up, the mother cried and carried on about how poor she is and gained the sympathy of the child support hearing officer, whom took it upon himself to run a few fudged scenarios on his laptop and ignore the department's review, even though no one had requested him to do so. He came up with several wildly varying support scenarios, ranging from a large increase to a decrease. The judge then denied the increase based on "lack of supporting evidence for a modification."
Now the mother is suing for a decrease based on one of these fudged scenarios. My concern is she may get it because my experience has been the courts are biased against men especially when it comes to matters of money. MY daughters are both in their teens now and the costs to support them have skyrocketed. The mother just does not want to support her children.
In my mind, FLDOR is clearly responsible for this debacle for allowing the officer to ignore their own review and now allowing the mother to think she can get out of supporting our children.
Can FLDOR be sued for the amount of support my children will lose from now until they are 18 because of reckless and wrongful determination of support?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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