My husband has joint custody of his 16 year old daughter. He pays child support which is automatically taken out of his paycheck and is deposited into her mother's bank account. The problem is that for almost a year, his daughter has not been living with her mother. The daughter lives with her mother's ex-husband. My husband didn't find out about this until about a couple of weeks after the fact (we live in Rhode Island and his daughter and her mother live in Pennsylvania and the mother doesn't tell him what's going on except when she needs extra money for the daughter's braces, back-to-school clothes, etc. - which he has always given her).
We were under the assumption that the mother was paying her ex-husband the child support amounts that she gets from my husband. Unfortunately, we just found out this is not the case. She has been using the money to pay her bills. And we also just found out that the mother has agreed to let the daughter move to Florida to live with her great-aunt (who we do not know) in the next couple of weeks (without consulting with my husband). We don't know what to do about the child support. He wants to make sure that the money goes to his daughter.

N0help4u

He needs to take it back to court and have the Judge straighten it out.

twinkiedooter

Consult with an attorney immediately and have this entire situation brought before a Judge as soon as possible. The ex-wife may be ordered to repay this money to the actual caregiver of the daughter.

I'm wondering how the daughter never mentioned just where she physically lived to you or your husband in the entire year. Doesn't he have regular visitation time with her? Joint custody should mean that he has more interaction of his daughter's living arrangements. How does she get to your home for visitations?