I live in Las Vegas, Nv and I was married to my x-husband for almost 11 years. I had 3 children with him. He was a very mean drunk and he was very abusive. In my divorce decree I made sure that it was put in that if he was found to be drinking that all visitation would stop until further investigation was done. Well we are a couple years divorced and he continues to drink when he has my kids with him. I have had to pick them up multiple times, and one time with the police because he was so drunk I knew it would be a fight to get them out of there. My oldest daughter who is 13 calls me and tells me that he is threatening his new wife's life and that he is being very verbally abusive. This was last weekend. So I went to family court and I filed to take away his visitation rights. He is saying if I do that that he will not have to pay child support. Is that true? I would let him see them again once he completes an alcohol class and that is what I am going to ask for in court but I am working two jobs and I really need his child support. Please can someone answer that question for me.

Thank you

So if he does not have to pay, what does it matter, since you are protecting the kids right?

Ok, making you think of why you are doing this

But no, he still have to pay, he can ask for if he wants supervised visits though a court approved mediator. So he can still have visits if he fights for them

Visitation is generally not tied to support. If your original visitation order carried a condition about drinking when the children are with him, and you can prove he has violated that rule, then you should be able to get visitation suspended. This will not affect the support order.