RiverSong42
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
NCP has just started paying support again. In the last 6 weeks he has paid about $200. (Still less than what he was supposed to pay for that time period, but anything is better than $0) Now he insists on receipts to show what I spent the money on. Seeing as though, before this time, he hadn't paid support in over 1.5 years, and the fact that our kids are fed, clothed, sheltered and well cared for, I consider any money he pays in support to be reimbursement. He claims that if I don't have receipts to prove the money was spent specifically on the children, he will take me to court (and win) a modification to lower his child support payments.
I'm almost 100% sure he is totally wrong about that, but I can't find any legal definition on what I can spend child support money on. Google isn't helping me much today.
Frankly, the amount is so small, I end up spending it on random things, a gallon of milk here, or lightbulbs there. Batteries, a snack, etc... Sometimes its spent on things the kids don't use directly, but its generally used for household-type things.
Can anyone point me to something that specifically states what's support is to be used for and whether or not I need to provide receipts in NYS?
NCP has just started paying support again. In the last 6 weeks he has paid about $200. (Still less than what he was supposed to pay for that time period, but anything is better than $0) Now he insists on receipts to show what I spent the money on. Seeing as though, before this time, he hadn't paid support in over 1.5 years, and the fact that our kids are fed, clothed, sheltered and well cared for, I consider any money he pays in support to be reimbursement. He claims that if I don't have receipts to prove the money was spent specifically on the children, he will take me to court (and win) a modification to lower his child support payments.
I'm almost 100% sure he is totally wrong about that, but I can't find any legal definition on what I can spend child support money on. Google isn't helping me much today.
Frankly, the amount is so small, I end up spending it on random things, a gallon of milk here, or lightbulbs there. Batteries, a snack, etc... Sometimes its spent on things the kids don't use directly, but its generally used for household-type things.
Can anyone point me to something that specifically states what's support is to be used for and whether or not I need to provide receipts in NYS?