What is the name of your state? New York
My husband pays support for his son. The son is now 19 year old, will be 20 this summer. He graduated from high school June 2005, he is not going to college, he is working. For a little while him and his girlfriend lived in their own apartment. Then they moved down to North Carolina together and were down there about 3-4 months. They came back to New York in January of 2006. He is now living at his girlfriend's parents home with her. All this time the support monies continued to go to the mother. I don't know if we could get support stopped on these grounds or not. Our lawyer said we would have a tough case to prove that he was supporting himself, which I have to agree with him on that one. We really don't mind continuing to pay support until he is 21, that is just a short 17 months away, and believe me, we are counting the days.
My question is this. We have not heard from the mother since June of last year when she nailed us with $350 worth of graduation expenses. We did pay it, even thought we didn't have to. We showed the bills to our lawyer and he said technically it was not part of the support order currently in place. She sent us a nasty note, along with a copy of my husbands support order that all medical, dental, eyeglass, etc. expenses were to be reimbursed in the following manner. I guess she thought the etc. meant all his graduation expenses. My husband said, let's just pay it, cus if we don't she land us back in court again. So against our better judgement, we paid it.
My other question is this? According to the current support order it states the mother is obligated to cover health insurance for the child. He is 19 years old, and not going to school full time anymore, so if he can't be covered under his mothers health policy any longer, and she is not covering him at all, is she in contempt of the order? And secondly, it states we reimburse her for 50% of all uninsured medical bills, dental, eyeglass, etc. If she send us a bill for him for 50% of the total medical bill, can we ask for proof that he is insured by her before we will pay the uninsured portion?
Thanks for everyone's help, sorry this is so long.What is the name of your state?
My husband pays support for his son. The son is now 19 year old, will be 20 this summer. He graduated from high school June 2005, he is not going to college, he is working. For a little while him and his girlfriend lived in their own apartment. Then they moved down to North Carolina together and were down there about 3-4 months. They came back to New York in January of 2006. He is now living at his girlfriend's parents home with her. All this time the support monies continued to go to the mother. I don't know if we could get support stopped on these grounds or not. Our lawyer said we would have a tough case to prove that he was supporting himself, which I have to agree with him on that one. We really don't mind continuing to pay support until he is 21, that is just a short 17 months away, and believe me, we are counting the days.
My question is this. We have not heard from the mother since June of last year when she nailed us with $350 worth of graduation expenses. We did pay it, even thought we didn't have to. We showed the bills to our lawyer and he said technically it was not part of the support order currently in place. She sent us a nasty note, along with a copy of my husbands support order that all medical, dental, eyeglass, etc. expenses were to be reimbursed in the following manner. I guess she thought the etc. meant all his graduation expenses. My husband said, let's just pay it, cus if we don't she land us back in court again. So against our better judgement, we paid it.
My other question is this? According to the current support order it states the mother is obligated to cover health insurance for the child. He is 19 years old, and not going to school full time anymore, so if he can't be covered under his mothers health policy any longer, and she is not covering him at all, is she in contempt of the order? And secondly, it states we reimburse her for 50% of all uninsured medical bills, dental, eyeglass, etc. If she send us a bill for him for 50% of the total medical bill, can we ask for proof that he is insured by her before we will pay the uninsured portion?
Thanks for everyone's help, sorry this is so long.What is the name of your state?