toddcandi
Nov 29, 2012, 03:33 PM
I would like to know how child support works. My boyfriend pays child support, and I was wondering how these things were decided and if he still should be paying. Here's our situation
Mom and Dad have split custody and each take the child for the same amount of time. Every other week-so its even.
Dad makes more money than mom, he's not wealthy but does own his own business, where as she is a nurse.
But here's the thing that I believe would make it so that he doesn't have to pay childsupport- if the child ever needs anything he pays for it.
He pays for tutoring, he buys at least 80% of the child's clothers, and would buy 100% if he needed too. When it comes to after school activities, sports, summer camp, and anything else as such, Dad pays.
Really it makes me kind of wonder where all the child support money is going, I doubt that it's all spent on the child, I doubt it's spent on him much at all.
Mom often says she can't pay for this and that, but she seems to be able to do other things for herself. I'm not saying she's blowing off all her money but she never has offered to help pay for much when it comes to the child. We buy his shoes 90% of the time. Last summer he said that they had no more than some crackers to snack on, when I asked him if he had a snack for after swim lessons (which Dad paid for).
So my question is, should Dad really be paying child support every month? To me it seems like he shouldn't but I don't know how the state works these things out.
Mom and Dad have split custody and each take the child for the same amount of time. Every other week-so its even.
Dad makes more money than mom, he's not wealthy but does own his own business, where as she is a nurse.
But here's the thing that I believe would make it so that he doesn't have to pay childsupport- if the child ever needs anything he pays for it.
He pays for tutoring, he buys at least 80% of the child's clothers, and would buy 100% if he needed too. When it comes to after school activities, sports, summer camp, and anything else as such, Dad pays.
Really it makes me kind of wonder where all the child support money is going, I doubt that it's all spent on the child, I doubt it's spent on him much at all.
Mom often says she can't pay for this and that, but she seems to be able to do other things for herself. I'm not saying she's blowing off all her money but she never has offered to help pay for much when it comes to the child. We buy his shoes 90% of the time. Last summer he said that they had no more than some crackers to snack on, when I asked him if he had a snack for after swim lessons (which Dad paid for).
So my question is, should Dad really be paying child support every month? To me it seems like he shouldn't but I don't know how the state works these things out.