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My 16 year old son is being influenced by his father. Recently I had taken the issue of increasing the child support to court. The court order an increased amount (the original order was 1985 and had not been reviewed since).
My son's father is very upset about the increased amount of child support he has to pay.
My son is telling me that I have to spend every cent on him or give it to him.
I don't feel that child support should be just handed over to him. I have let him know that it is not his allowance.
My thoughts are that the child support is to be used in part to help support the child live in the style that he was accustomed to when the his father and I were together.
I informed him that I use the child support to cloth him, buy school supplies, pay for his entertainment, as well as provide a home for him to live in, food on the table, and basic utilities.
Also to be noted that I have always worked, supported my children on my own with the aid of the child support, except for the two years that his father did not work and could not pay his child support. ( He has paid up his arreages for that time.)
Please advise what the child support guidelines advise are the use of the monies received.
Thank you,
My son's father is very upset about the increased amount of child support he has to pay.
My son is telling me that I have to spend every cent on him or give it to him.
I don't feel that child support should be just handed over to him. I have let him know that it is not his allowance.
My thoughts are that the child support is to be used in part to help support the child live in the style that he was accustomed to when the his father and I were together.
I informed him that I use the child support to cloth him, buy school supplies, pay for his entertainment, as well as provide a home for him to live in, food on the table, and basic utilities.
Also to be noted that I have always worked, supported my children on my own with the aid of the child support, except for the two years that his father did not work and could not pay his child support. ( He has paid up his arreages for that time.)
Please advise what the child support guidelines advise are the use of the monies received.
Thank you,