pookerhead
Junior Member
Pennsylvania
First child support hearing was this week. In the hearing my sons father was very rude to my lawyer and very ignorant during the entire process. He works a job and makes a little over min. wage but at 40 hours/week. I am working 3 jobs right now just so that I can pay for daycare, until I start receiving child support. He has not contributed a dime and since i filed for child support he has filed for 50/50. I know this story is pretty typical - where if one parent files child support the other files for half custody so that he doesn't have to pay. They put a temporary order for child support in for only half of what they originally set it at and he did not agree. We are now scheduled for a masters hearing in 3 weeks.... He pushed it back because he told my lawyer, me and the person doing the calculations that he is going away for 3 weeks to California to look at houses with his new girlfriend. I'm sure he did that to take a jab at me but he is obviously clueless on how bad that looks on him. My attorney says that in this next masters hearing they will now calculate child care expenses and health insurance so he may even have to pay more than the original amount stated anyway. I think he is thinking he is going to get it lowered, but my lawyer is saying most likely he will end up paying a lot more - he should have agreed to the first amount because it can get really high once they factor in the other costs. I really need help, i need to be able to quit my other 2 part time jobs - i'm running around like a crazy woman and trying to be a new mom at the same time. What typically happens in the masters meeting? Will his order most likely go up? What if he somehow tries to lie about something this time? Will they see through it?
First child support hearing was this week. In the hearing my sons father was very rude to my lawyer and very ignorant during the entire process. He works a job and makes a little over min. wage but at 40 hours/week. I am working 3 jobs right now just so that I can pay for daycare, until I start receiving child support. He has not contributed a dime and since i filed for child support he has filed for 50/50. I know this story is pretty typical - where if one parent files child support the other files for half custody so that he doesn't have to pay. They put a temporary order for child support in for only half of what they originally set it at and he did not agree. We are now scheduled for a masters hearing in 3 weeks.... He pushed it back because he told my lawyer, me and the person doing the calculations that he is going away for 3 weeks to California to look at houses with his new girlfriend. I'm sure he did that to take a jab at me but he is obviously clueless on how bad that looks on him. My attorney says that in this next masters hearing they will now calculate child care expenses and health insurance so he may even have to pay more than the original amount stated anyway. I think he is thinking he is going to get it lowered, but my lawyer is saying most likely he will end up paying a lot more - he should have agreed to the first amount because it can get really high once they factor in the other costs. I really need help, i need to be able to quit my other 2 part time jobs - i'm running around like a crazy woman and trying to be a new mom at the same time. What typically happens in the masters meeting? Will his order most likely go up? What if he somehow tries to lie about something this time? Will they see through it?