What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MN
I am divorced. My ex and I have 50/50 shared custody. We share daycare expenses. On my weeks, my son goes to a licensed daycare for which I have a contract. On her weeks, my son attends a different daycare. We have Wednesday overnights with the other parent where drop off and pick up is at the daycare.
We both know that per the daycare contract at both of our daycares, whether our son is at the daycare or not, we are contracted to pay for the entire week. So, we both know that on holidays that we have our son, paid daycare is available to us if it is not our "regularly" scheduled week. Are you following here?
On Halloween, it was my regularly scheduled week. It was her holiday to have our son. Instead of utilizing the already paid and contracted daycare, she chose to put him in her daycare for a day and now expects me to pay for my share of that doubled up, extra expense. She drops our son off at "my" daycare on "my" regularly scheduled weeks every Monday and then picks him up that Wednesday and drops him back off on Thursday. So there is no reason she could not get him to "my" daycare. She did not "need" the extra daycare, as paid daycare services were already available to her.
I have searched the MN courts website for clarification, but there is no clarity on this double daycare expenses.
Can anyone find anything to clarify this? It seems common sense to me that unless daycare is "needed" then you don't reimburse for it.
I am divorced. My ex and I have 50/50 shared custody. We share daycare expenses. On my weeks, my son goes to a licensed daycare for which I have a contract. On her weeks, my son attends a different daycare. We have Wednesday overnights with the other parent where drop off and pick up is at the daycare.
We both know that per the daycare contract at both of our daycares, whether our son is at the daycare or not, we are contracted to pay for the entire week. So, we both know that on holidays that we have our son, paid daycare is available to us if it is not our "regularly" scheduled week. Are you following here?
On Halloween, it was my regularly scheduled week. It was her holiday to have our son. Instead of utilizing the already paid and contracted daycare, she chose to put him in her daycare for a day and now expects me to pay for my share of that doubled up, extra expense. She drops our son off at "my" daycare on "my" regularly scheduled weeks every Monday and then picks him up that Wednesday and drops him back off on Thursday. So there is no reason she could not get him to "my" daycare. She did not "need" the extra daycare, as paid daycare services were already available to her.
I have searched the MN courts website for clarification, but there is no clarity on this double daycare expenses.
Can anyone find anything to clarify this? It seems common sense to me that unless daycare is "needed" then you don't reimburse for it.