Ithildriel
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What is the name of your state? California
I had another thread that was locked regarding some child custody issues of a friend of mine at work.
His mediation was last Wednesday. Caught in her lies and deciepts by the mediator, she agreed verbally to 90/10 placement with dad...her getting 1st 3rd and 5th weekends, and 2 weeks uninterupted in the summer. (By the way, she is already saying she doesn't want to exercise her visitation this weekend.) This is temporary, supposedly until June (no date for that set yet) in order for her to (as the mediator said) try to repair her relationship with her children.
Oldest 3 have been told by their counselor and the mediator that they do not have to go to mom's if they don't want to. Mom is not fighting this.
Anyway, current temp order has my friend paying child support to her based on 50/50 placement of 5 kids. They have a court date set April 28th, which I guess is when they will ask for this continuance until June. My feeling is that the switch in placement is a change of circumstance, and his lawyer should be fighting for an immediate change in child support (at the new percentage she would actually owe him money). At the very least I would think that his current payments should stop at the very least (he is also paying arrears for the time between filing and when the child support amount was set). He is saying that his lawyer will probably ask for a change at the April court date. Is that normal? It just doesn't seem right that she continue to receive these payments, while he has to charge groceries to a credit card.
I had another thread that was locked regarding some child custody issues of a friend of mine at work.
His mediation was last Wednesday. Caught in her lies and deciepts by the mediator, she agreed verbally to 90/10 placement with dad...her getting 1st 3rd and 5th weekends, and 2 weeks uninterupted in the summer. (By the way, she is already saying she doesn't want to exercise her visitation this weekend.) This is temporary, supposedly until June (no date for that set yet) in order for her to (as the mediator said) try to repair her relationship with her children.
Oldest 3 have been told by their counselor and the mediator that they do not have to go to mom's if they don't want to. Mom is not fighting this.
Anyway, current temp order has my friend paying child support to her based on 50/50 placement of 5 kids. They have a court date set April 28th, which I guess is when they will ask for this continuance until June. My feeling is that the switch in placement is a change of circumstance, and his lawyer should be fighting for an immediate change in child support (at the new percentage she would actually owe him money). At the very least I would think that his current payments should stop at the very least (he is also paying arrears for the time between filing and when the child support amount was set). He is saying that his lawyer will probably ask for a change at the April court date. Is that normal? It just doesn't seem right that she continue to receive these payments, while he has to charge groceries to a credit card.