My husband has been paying child support for many years now for his daughter who currently lives with a great aunt. The mother has never had custody of the child. While cleaning out our file cabinet I came across the original order for child support. Wondering if I should shred it because it was so old and irrelevant now, I really examined it. I found it funny that on the order it shows "pays to Mother". I showed this to my husband and he confronted the great aunt, because we always assumed she was obviously getting the support. She claims she has never received benefits in the 9 years she has had the girl. I don't know why she would lie, but people do strange things all the time. When I call the county they won't tell me anything and my husband has yet to call because he is a procrastinator. So I am wondering if anyone knows if this is just a general statement on the order or if there is some type of fraud involved.

No, the court order is to who it pays, but there could have been dozens of changes to the order over the year.

He needs to find out, and he has to do it