bonkers101
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Texas -
Ex refuses to pay for 50% of son's dr bills. At this point they are going to be a monthly expense, he is on a monthly medication and is seeing a therapist once a week. The whole reason for the therapist is due to dad's complete emotional abuse when he sees him and the horribly negative comments to son about me. Son has broken down to therapists, hsi teachers, his counselor at school, anyone who will listen. It is not an option to stop therapy at this point.
I'm assuming those visits will break down to twice a month after he starts working with her and learning how to "deal" with dad's nastiness.
In the meantime, the meds are $35.00 a month co-pay, (he has been on the meds for a yr now, they are not becasue of current issues) visits are $30.00 a wk co-pay. That is an additional $155.00 out of pocket monthly for me that I am having trouble budgeting in.
We JUST went to mediation in November simply to update our papers, so court is really not an option right now. In mediation he claimed he would pay up, and I thought the point was t0 mediate and settle without going to court so I didn't push anything, just took him for his worthless word.
Question is - if I keep records of all of the bills I send to him that he is refusing to pay, is their any other recourse for me aside from contempt charges?
Also - if these bills build up for let's say a yr - and I do end up filing contempt, will he have to pay up for ALL of the bills, even over a yr old if I can prove that he did in fact receive them and refused to pay?
Thanks. At this point, he owes over $400.00 to me for the last year of bills and I don't see him paying up - (son had emergency dental work not completely covered by my insurance)
thanks for any info or advice!
Ex refuses to pay for 50% of son's dr bills. At this point they are going to be a monthly expense, he is on a monthly medication and is seeing a therapist once a week. The whole reason for the therapist is due to dad's complete emotional abuse when he sees him and the horribly negative comments to son about me. Son has broken down to therapists, hsi teachers, his counselor at school, anyone who will listen. It is not an option to stop therapy at this point.
I'm assuming those visits will break down to twice a month after he starts working with her and learning how to "deal" with dad's nastiness.
In the meantime, the meds are $35.00 a month co-pay, (he has been on the meds for a yr now, they are not becasue of current issues) visits are $30.00 a wk co-pay. That is an additional $155.00 out of pocket monthly for me that I am having trouble budgeting in.
We JUST went to mediation in November simply to update our papers, so court is really not an option right now. In mediation he claimed he would pay up, and I thought the point was t0 mediate and settle without going to court so I didn't push anything, just took him for his worthless word.
Question is - if I keep records of all of the bills I send to him that he is refusing to pay, is their any other recourse for me aside from contempt charges?
Also - if these bills build up for let's say a yr - and I do end up filing contempt, will he have to pay up for ALL of the bills, even over a yr old if I can prove that he did in fact receive them and refused to pay?
Thanks. At this point, he owes over $400.00 to me for the last year of bills and I don't see him paying up - (son had emergency dental work not completely covered by my insurance)
thanks for any info or advice!