Zigner
Senior Member, Non-Attorney
A condition of applying for benefits is for you to allow them to seek out the appropriate child support order from the other parent on your behalf. I understand that you have been "splitting expenses" with no issues, but your ex will soon have a child support order requiring her to pay money to reimburse the state for the benefits they are providing to your children.This isn't about getting out of paying child support, like I said, she makes more than I do, and the worksheets would show her owing ME. Hence, the intervention on MY behalf. I support my children on a daily basis, and we have been splitting expenses since our divorce with no issues.
The reasoning is that, if she were paying the appropriate amount of child support, you would have no (or less) need for the state to step in and provide benefits for the children.