dadof4kids
Junior Member
TN
Divorce finalized February of 2013, ex-wife drug it out as long as possible to retain pendant lite order - that is a side note. CS was ordered at $1000 per month based on salary at the time (57K). Down-sized from that job in July, now making 39K and working to full potential based on education and licensure. The higher paying job was a management position. Ex-wife has TWO master's degrees and is working as an elementary teacher. Filed for a CS modification on 8/01, she failed to respond to the child support office until recently. Based on the CS calculator new support amount should be $691. A court date was set for last Monday but I was never served. The social worker at the CS office "Forgot" and is "Sorry". Greedy ex-wife "can't take off work in November" so new court date is set for 12/16. Social worker says that I can request that the modification be retro back to 9/01 (30 days after I filed for the modification). Ex-wife has an attorney (I cannot afford one). Is it possible the judge can not allow the modification? I thought in TN that whatever the CS calculator deems the appropriate amount of support, that was the number. I am remarried, but she has her own kids to take care of. Can they count her income? Ex-wife LIED to the CS office and said I quit my higher paying job, which isn't true and I have a separation agreement letter to prove it. Any thoughts?
Divorce finalized February of 2013, ex-wife drug it out as long as possible to retain pendant lite order - that is a side note. CS was ordered at $1000 per month based on salary at the time (57K). Down-sized from that job in July, now making 39K and working to full potential based on education and licensure. The higher paying job was a management position. Ex-wife has TWO master's degrees and is working as an elementary teacher. Filed for a CS modification on 8/01, she failed to respond to the child support office until recently. Based on the CS calculator new support amount should be $691. A court date was set for last Monday but I was never served. The social worker at the CS office "Forgot" and is "Sorry". Greedy ex-wife "can't take off work in November" so new court date is set for 12/16. Social worker says that I can request that the modification be retro back to 9/01 (30 days after I filed for the modification). Ex-wife has an attorney (I cannot afford one). Is it possible the judge can not allow the modification? I thought in TN that whatever the CS calculator deems the appropriate amount of support, that was the number. I am remarried, but she has her own kids to take care of. Can they count her income? Ex-wife LIED to the CS office and said I quit my higher paying job, which isn't true and I have a separation agreement letter to prove it. Any thoughts?