Transportation Expenses? What is the bottom line?

[Cindergretta]

What is the name of your state? Georgia

What are transportation expenses based on? i am the custodial parent and STBX will be the NCP, who makes 3 times as much as i do ( i am a teacher). anyway, can i "assume" that he will have to pay the transportation expenses in order to visit the kids? is this a given? he will be living out of state probably until the kids are 18 and is income is on a very upward rise. it seems that they wouldn't expect the custodial parent to have to pay for the noncustodial parent to visit the kids.

 

[Silverplum]

Who is moving away from the site of the divorce proceedings, the CP or the NCP?

 

[Cindergretta]

well, this situation isn't really that cut and dry. i fled a foreign country because of domestic abuse, which STBX agreed that i could leave to come back with my parents. he served me with divorce papers hours before i was going to get on the plane. we were another country because STBX is in the Navy. the divorce proceedings were started in a foreign country and will be finished in Georgia. there isn't really a "home" state at this point because we left Virginia, but we weren't necessarily going back to Virginia after the foreign tour, it could have been a number of states. Georgia will be mine and my kids home state in April.

 

[Silverplum]

Yep, that's complex. Too complex for layperson me. Sorry.

 

[nextwife]

IF you and hhe had legal residency status in one state, and YOU moved to another with the kids, then it may be determined that you helped create the distance. The question is where you were residing and where he was residing prior to filing. If you helped create the distance, you may be made resposnible or partially responsible to help with transportation costs. I can't make out from your post who had residency where before filing occured.

 

[Cindergretta]

well, neither of us had "legal" residency status in the foreign country and we weren't returning to the state that we came from before we went to the foreign country. it could have been three different states that we would have returned to and since he is in the Navy he is going to being romping around all over the world anyway. the children won't be leaving the country to visit him anyway, he will be back in the states in 2007. from what i have gathered so far is that he makes a whole lot more money and i wouldn't be expected to pay for him to visit his kids.