Child support/custody and owed arrears

[T.S]

So my daughter (15) has decided to permanently live with her father so he now has legal custody. He owes me back pay in over $16,000, could he put me on child support? If so what happens to the back pay. Or some sort of helpfully advice. I get SSDI and she gets a payment as dependant I read somewhere that I could use it as child support or have payment deducted from his arrears, is this true. The child support order was given in Texas he lives in New Mexico.

 

[Ohiogal]

Yes that is true.

 

[T.S]

Would I need a lawyer or could I ask for it to be done myself?

 

[LdiJ]

So my daughter (15) has decided to permanently live with her father so he now has legal custody. He owes me back pay in over $16,000, could he put me on child support? If so what happens to the back pay. Or some sort of helpfully advice. I get SSDI and she gets a payment as dependant I read somewhere that I could use it as child support or have payment deducted from his arrears, is this true. The child support order was given in Texas he lives in New Mexico.

If he tried to get child support from you, you have two actual defenses. The first defense is if she is receiving a benefit from your SSDI, and he is receiving that benefit as her rep payee, then that should count as child support. The second defense is that he owes you the 16000.00. The end result really should be that he has to continue to pay off that 16k because he will be receiving support via the SS payment to his daughter.

 

[Ohiogal]

Would I need a lawyer or could I ask for it to be done myself?

Does he have a lawyer or this through CSEA?