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bobinok
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What is the name of your state? Oklahoma
I have some questions in regards to my girlfriend’s situation with her ex-husband. So as quick as I can I will try to summarize up the situation.
My girlfriend has four kids with her ex-husband. They were divorced while living in California which is where the custody/visitation/support arrangement was filed. She has since moved to Oklahoma with the four kids. They both verbally agreed to a new custody/visitation arrangement and agreed that he would pay the original support amount. Even though he is making much more money, and she is making much less (I know this means nothing since she didn’t go back to court and request a new agreement). Anyway, they both naively thought that this was ok since they were getting along so well, and they both thought that they didn’t need to file anything with the court as far as custody/visitation goes.
So fast forward a year, and things aren’t going so smoothly. He has stopped paying child support, and has said that he won’t pay anything for a three month period. He said that since he had been paying "extra" money the whole time that he doesn’t need to pay for those months. Well the "extra" he is referring to is money that he verbally agreed to pay to help with medical bills, health insurance, birthday parties, gifts, etc. . . He voluntarily paid it, but now he is saying that he can count it towards child support.
Well here are my questions.
1) Can he apply voluntary extra payments that he made over the years to actual child support and just not pay for a certain period of time?
2) If she does go after him in court for back child support and to raise the existing child support amount will she get in trouble for moving to Oklahoma without notifying the court?
3) Is there anything she can do now to make sure that he doesn’t try to get her in trouble for moving even though he approved the move?
I have some questions in regards to my girlfriend’s situation with her ex-husband. So as quick as I can I will try to summarize up the situation.
My girlfriend has four kids with her ex-husband. They were divorced while living in California which is where the custody/visitation/support arrangement was filed. She has since moved to Oklahoma with the four kids. They both verbally agreed to a new custody/visitation arrangement and agreed that he would pay the original support amount. Even though he is making much more money, and she is making much less (I know this means nothing since she didn’t go back to court and request a new agreement). Anyway, they both naively thought that this was ok since they were getting along so well, and they both thought that they didn’t need to file anything with the court as far as custody/visitation goes.
So fast forward a year, and things aren’t going so smoothly. He has stopped paying child support, and has said that he won’t pay anything for a three month period. He said that since he had been paying "extra" money the whole time that he doesn’t need to pay for those months. Well the "extra" he is referring to is money that he verbally agreed to pay to help with medical bills, health insurance, birthday parties, gifts, etc. . . He voluntarily paid it, but now he is saying that he can count it towards child support.
Well here are my questions.
1) Can he apply voluntary extra payments that he made over the years to actual child support and just not pay for a certain period of time?
2) If she does go after him in court for back child support and to raise the existing child support amount will she get in trouble for moving to Oklahoma without notifying the court?
3) Is there anything she can do now to make sure that he doesn’t try to get her in trouble for moving even though he approved the move?