What is the name of your state? California
I think my father is cheating my mother on child support. I don't know exactly who got custody of me, because my mother tells me that my father got custody of me, but my mother agreed to not receive child support as long as she could get custody of me. My mother says my father handed me over immediately.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I can definitely believe it, knowing the type of person my father is.
My father is whining about paying $400 a month for child support, while he lives in a $2 million dollar mansion with his wife. He is seventy years old and retired, so he makes the excuse that he has no income except what Social Security gives him. He also says that the $200 a month that Social Security gives my mother is taken out of his account, so he doesn't need to pay the extra $400. He is active in the stock market. Doesn't that count as income? Although I think he might be low enough to register the income under his wife's name so that he doesn't need to count that when it comes to child support.
I thought that child support is based on standard of living, and not on income. When I said that to him, he laughed.
My father used to pay $600 a month when I attended a private elementary school. Now I am a senior in a public high school. Expenses are increasing, and yet he has decreased child support. I asked why he couldn't pay the $600, and he says that's all he gets from Social Security, and that he needs to "have some dignity" and not totally rely on his wife for monetary support. I asked if that was more important my standard of living.
He replied, "my dignity is more important than your life."
I plan to attend a four-year college. I took a civil law class in my high school, and it said that he is obligated to pay child support until I graduate from the four-year college. Is it true?
Does anyone know how I can improve this situation for my mother and me?
I think my father is cheating my mother on child support. I don't know exactly who got custody of me, because my mother tells me that my father got custody of me, but my mother agreed to not receive child support as long as she could get custody of me. My mother says my father handed me over immediately.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I can definitely believe it, knowing the type of person my father is.
My father is whining about paying $400 a month for child support, while he lives in a $2 million dollar mansion with his wife. He is seventy years old and retired, so he makes the excuse that he has no income except what Social Security gives him. He also says that the $200 a month that Social Security gives my mother is taken out of his account, so he doesn't need to pay the extra $400. He is active in the stock market. Doesn't that count as income? Although I think he might be low enough to register the income under his wife's name so that he doesn't need to count that when it comes to child support.
I thought that child support is based on standard of living, and not on income. When I said that to him, he laughed.
My father used to pay $600 a month when I attended a private elementary school. Now I am a senior in a public high school. Expenses are increasing, and yet he has decreased child support. I asked why he couldn't pay the $600, and he says that's all he gets from Social Security, and that he needs to "have some dignity" and not totally rely on his wife for monetary support. I asked if that was more important my standard of living.
He replied, "my dignity is more important than your life."
I plan to attend a four-year college. I took a civil law class in my high school, and it said that he is obligated to pay child support until I graduate from the four-year college. Is it true?
Does anyone know how I can improve this situation for my mother and me?