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Florida: Ex-Wife asking for one more day with kids

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Mossad76

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My ex-wife and I both live in Palm Beach County.

Custody for our two kids is: First week I have them Thu, Fri, Sat (to 12pm) and then the second weekThu, Fri, Sat, Sun (to 8pm), then it alternates.
I have waived all rights to alimony and take $0 in child support. She pays medical insurance. She covers mental healthcare costs. We split all other medical costs per our share, based on income (doctor visits, dentists, vision).
For the past 8 months she is asking for one additional night with the kids. I am concerned that if I let her do this she will try and make a claim for child support, which I cannot afford. Considering our relationship is about as sour as it gets, I am sure she would try this if she was eligible.

So the question: Can someone help to assess if she is able to get child support based on this additional day, even though her income is 3-4 times mine?

To note: Even if the answer is "no she cannot, she makes too much money compared to you", I am not sure that I want to give her one extra night with the kids. I do love my kids and miss seeing them when they are not around.
 


Just Blue

Senior Member
My ex-wife and I both live in Palm Beach County.

Custody for our two kids is: First week I have them Thu, Fri, Sat (to 12pm) and then the second weekThu, Fri, Sat, Sun (to 8pm), then it alternates.
I have waived all rights to alimony and take $0 in child support. She pays medical insurance. She covers mental healthcare costs. We split all other medical costs per our share, based on income (doctor visits, dentists, vision).
For the past 8 months she is asking for one additional night with the kids. I am concerned that if I let her do this she will try and make a claim for child support, which I cannot afford. Considering our relationship is about as sour as it gets, I am sure she would try this if she was eligible.

So the question: Can someone help to assess if she is able to get child support based on this additional day, even though her income is 3-4 times mine?

To note: Even if the answer is "no she cannot, she makes too much money compared to you", I am not sure that I want to give her one extra night with the kids. I do love my kids and miss seeing them when they are not around.
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LdiJ

Senior Member
My ex-wife and I both live in Palm Beach County.

Custody for our two kids is: First week I have them Thu, Fri, Sat (to 12pm) and then the second weekThu, Fri, Sat, Sun (to 8pm), then it alternates.
I have waived all rights to alimony and take $0 in child support. She pays medical insurance. She covers mental healthcare costs. We split all other medical costs per our share, based on income (doctor visits, dentists, vision).
For the past 8 months she is asking for one additional night with the kids. I am concerned that if I let her do this she will try and make a claim for child support, which I cannot afford. Considering our relationship is about as sour as it gets, I am sure she would try this if she was eligible.

So the question: Can someone help to assess if she is able to get child support based on this additional day, even though her income is 3-4 times mine?

To note: Even if the answer is "no she cannot, she makes too much money compared to you", I am not sure that I want to give her one extra night with the kids. I do love my kids and miss seeing them when they are not around.
I am not sure what you mean by "and then it alternates". Child support/custody issues are normally based on the number of overnights each parent has with the children in junction with the parent's respective incomes. Based on your description it already sounds like mom has more overnights in general than you do. Therefore I don't see how one more would make any real difference in a child support calculation.

I do think however that your schedule kind of stinks for your children since they never have a full weekend with mom and you have an unfair majority of the weekend time. Your kids are likely to rebel against that as they get older unless the two of you live very close together and you both accommodate their social lives no matter whose house they are sleeping at that night. Your children really should have alternating full weekends with each parent and then you split weekday time. Based on that, if mom is asking for additional weekend time then it is almost guaranteed that a judge would give it to her even if you don't agree. However, it is also almost guaranteed that a judge would give you another weekday in exchange for another weekend day for mom.
 

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