What is the name of your state? CA order...CO has jurisdiction
To recap...our original CA child support order states child support ends at 18. CO obtained jurisdiction. My ex anticipates that when our child turns 18 in a couple of months, child support will end. A letter from CSE indicates that child support will continue until next year, when our child turns 19. Apparently, under CO statutes, child support ends at 19; therefore, CSE said according to the federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act, they can go by CO statutes. CSE said if it was the reverse, if CA was the forum state and CO was the state of the order, support would still end at 19 because the statute which applies is whichever one provides the longer period of limitation.
Anyone run across this before? I don't see how to get CSE to terminate child support in a couple of months and only collect arrears. Also, CSE doesn't collect interest. I'm thinking of forgiving the interest since there's going to be another year of child support payments...even though the interest exceeds the amount of one year's payments. So, once child support is paid in full (excluding the interest), should I ask the CA court to forgive the interest? CO will close the case once arrears are paid in full. I plan on giving this next year's worth of payments to our child who will be in college. Hopefully my ex won't blow a gasket about the additional year... He said he was going to start giving the same amount to our child after child support ended anyway... so by me giving it to our child...it might help settle things.
To recap...our original CA child support order states child support ends at 18. CO obtained jurisdiction. My ex anticipates that when our child turns 18 in a couple of months, child support will end. A letter from CSE indicates that child support will continue until next year, when our child turns 19. Apparently, under CO statutes, child support ends at 19; therefore, CSE said according to the federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act, they can go by CO statutes. CSE said if it was the reverse, if CA was the forum state and CO was the state of the order, support would still end at 19 because the statute which applies is whichever one provides the longer period of limitation.
Anyone run across this before? I don't see how to get CSE to terminate child support in a couple of months and only collect arrears. Also, CSE doesn't collect interest. I'm thinking of forgiving the interest since there's going to be another year of child support payments...even though the interest exceeds the amount of one year's payments. So, once child support is paid in full (excluding the interest), should I ask the CA court to forgive the interest? CO will close the case once arrears are paid in full. I plan on giving this next year's worth of payments to our child who will be in college. Hopefully my ex won't blow a gasket about the additional year... He said he was going to start giving the same amount to our child after child support ended anyway... so by me giving it to our child...it might help settle things.
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