LdiJ
Senior Member
Perhaps what would be in the best interest of your family is for you to work also (opposite shift from your husband) in order to reduce some of the financial strain on your family.Wow!! Thank u everyone. These are all very helpful thoughts, however, I am trying to see his point as well. He feels we have to cater our life around whatever my exes schedule is...every month we receive my exes work schedule. My husband has four kids of his own that he pays a good chunk of support for (leaving us scraping by) and I do make some money from buying, fixing, and selling furniture on craigslist. My husband only gets to see his kids every other wknd and works hard to support all of us and my ex is only working ten days a week (24 hr shifts) at min wage. He used to make 125k + a year. My ex also has another child living out of state that he pays child support for. My husband is convinced that my ex makes as little as possible in order to avoid paying out too much child support...I'm going crazy here.
Maybe your ex IS working a low paying job in order to avoid paying support. However, unless that could be proven to the satisfaction of a judge, its basically irrelevant...and you would spend a decent chunk of money trying to convince a judge of that.