Unemployment is better...

[ramseycat]

Cracker: Does he pay child support? I'm not clear on that.

He pays some of it but not the ordered amount. He hasn't paid for their health insurance for over a year and that is his responsibility. I am responsible for co-pays. But I pay all of it now. He also deducted $383 one week for a plane ticket he said he bought for our youngest to go to Florida even though I said he couldn't go and miss a week of school and CPS said he can't take the kids out of state. That is a willfull violation and I could have had him put in jail but I didn't. See Dick, I can be nice sometimes too.

ramsey, be prepared not to win this one: http://www.nycourts.gov/divorce/forms_in...s/ud-8.pdf

NY does figure in your income. You obviously make more than he does. Plus, if you figure in attorney fees (great fucking tax deduction, btw, the best one), it may harm you more in the long run to fight this out in court.

Just giving you another perspective. It gets old worrying about shit like that. Can you meet somewhere in the middle? Agree to a reduction PLUS a chunk of that account maybe?

I didn't know the attorney's fees were a tax deduction! woo hoo!! I make more than he does because he isn't working. It's usually the other way around. I don't want a chunk of his savings. I just want him to pay what's fair and what he owes me. Other than that, I could care less what he does. Work. Don't work. Whatever. At least help support his children financially since he doesn't do anything else for them.

OH and I did actually agree to carry the insurance until he gets a job after he filed for the reduction but he refused! He wants to pay 25% of $405 a week and that's it. $100 a week barely feeds two teenage boys much less anything else.

And in addition to not ever asking for an increase, he has never contributed one penny towards sports. My kids have played baseball, basketball, football and done Tai Kwon Do. He wouldn't help pay for it and never showed up to any games either. He would actually leave my 10 year old at the high school for football practice and go home if it was hit night. LEAVE HIM ALONE.

I have to stop now. I could go on and on and on but it's not worth it. I am sure you all have an idea of what I deal with. Except Dick. He will never get it.