support from current husband

[starize5]

is it possible to get a court order for support for children with my husband if my husband and i live together? he has two children from two seperate past relations that he is ordered to pay support for. when the order for support was set in reguards to one child, following the child support guidelines in massachusetts, the court took into consideration the amount of support payed for his second child. first the court deducted the amount of the court ordered support that was already in affect from his gross weekly income then used the remainder amount to follow the guidelines. the court did not take into consideration the two children that he and i have together because there is no court order between us. why don't the guidelines consider his children that he lives with. is there any other way to address this issue?

 

[Ambr]

the first consideration goes to the children who have support orders in place.

the first order was established.

the second child had an order established and the support paid to the first child was taken into consideration.

if you establish an order for your children - the support paid to the first child and the second child will be taken into consideration before your support amount is set. by that time, the support order to you would be a very small amount. the support you are requesting would not affect the support to the other two children.

if the other mothers are willing to allow a reduction then it is a possibility that your children could be a reason to have the support lowered. but only if the other mothers are willing. (which, to be honest, rarely happens)

the way the court views it, his responsibilites are to the first two children and then to additional children.

 

[LegalBeagle]

is it possible to get a court order for support for children with my husband if my husband and i live together? he has two children from two seperate past relations that he is ordered to pay support for. when the order for support was set in reguards to one child, following the child support guidelines in massachusetts, the court took into consideration the amount of support payed for his second child. first the court deducted the amount of the court ordered support that was already in affect from his gross weekly income then used the remainder amount to follow the guidelines. the court did not take into consideration the two children that he and i have together because there is no court order between us. why don't the guidelines consider his children that he lives with. is there any other way to address this issue?

Why should the first two children be effected because he continues to have children? He knew about those two children and yet HE decided to have more..

The way to address this is for him to stop having babies..

 

[starize5]

reply to legal beagle

as much as i can appreciate your bluntness, even if my husband and i wanted to have ten babies what would make them less worthy than his two children outside our home. from my stand point i have two beautiful children who have just as many needs as his other two children.

 

[LegalBeagle]

Re: reply to legal beagle

as much as i can appreciate your bluntness, even if my husband and i wanted to have ten babies what would make them less worthy than his two children outside our home. from my stand point i have two beautiful children who have just as many needs as his other two children.

The point is, he has a choice.. the first two children do not. Going by the logic that you and many in the same situation go by, the first child would start off with 300/mnt and slowly, over the years this would be reduced to 12.50/mnt through no fault of the child.