K
kat29
Guest
What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? (Child lives in NY, Father in FL)
I’m hoping that someone can offer advice….
I divorced my ex-husband (in FL) when my son was 6 and we moved to NY. My son began visiting his father (in FL) for most of the summer (court order) when he was 7. He was ordered to pay me $400.00 per month in Child Support. He spends all of July and most of August with his father. In the beginning when I knew he was struggling to make ends meet, I used to send him a little money to help with expenses while my son was visiting. (I thought I was doing the right thing)
As my son got older, my ex began to feel that it was his right to have support while my son was visiting and began to demand that I send him back the child support that he paid for all of July & August. I refused. My rationale is that when a wife or husband has residential custody and the other parent has visitation on weekends for the entire year (52 weekends), the parent doesn’t pro-rate the child support. Can you imagine? Well….I had my son 8 days this months so I’m deducting $108.64 from the child support. It wouldn’t happen. But my ex is above the law and so for the last 2 years my ex has just stopped paying the child support for those two months. I get absolutely nothing from the end of June to the end of September. The State of Florida does nothing to him so he keeps doing this.
Is this legal?? I have to bring him to court? If I do, this will kill my son which is why I haven’t. It just infuriates me. Does anyone have any advice?? Thank you
I’m hoping that someone can offer advice….
I divorced my ex-husband (in FL) when my son was 6 and we moved to NY. My son began visiting his father (in FL) for most of the summer (court order) when he was 7. He was ordered to pay me $400.00 per month in Child Support. He spends all of July and most of August with his father. In the beginning when I knew he was struggling to make ends meet, I used to send him a little money to help with expenses while my son was visiting. (I thought I was doing the right thing)
As my son got older, my ex began to feel that it was his right to have support while my son was visiting and began to demand that I send him back the child support that he paid for all of July & August. I refused. My rationale is that when a wife or husband has residential custody and the other parent has visitation on weekends for the entire year (52 weekends), the parent doesn’t pro-rate the child support. Can you imagine? Well….I had my son 8 days this months so I’m deducting $108.64 from the child support. It wouldn’t happen. But my ex is above the law and so for the last 2 years my ex has just stopped paying the child support for those two months. I get absolutely nothing from the end of June to the end of September. The State of Florida does nothing to him so he keeps doing this.
Is this legal?? I have to bring him to court? If I do, this will kill my son which is why I haven’t. It just infuriates me. Does anyone have any advice?? Thank you