I would love to have this happen. I'm over the whole struggling thing. Let him and his newest love igure out how to pay daycare, food, and shelter... Ops that's right they don't want him. |
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I am sure your XH is being an *sshole. People who want to game the child-support system, or any system for that matter, can. (In my personal case, my XH elects not to work, takes "loans" from his parents which cannot even be "imputed" income because they aren't gifts, turns in tax returns that indicate he only earned some $12K or $15K in taxable income, but meanwhile goes to Banff, Florida, Colorado, and Chicago with his parents.)
You just can't become crazy about it. Does it make him an *sshole that he's doing this to his children? Oh yes. It does. But it's on his conscience and our jobs are to make the best of it. |
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It is probably not the child they do not want, it is you. |
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To the stepmothers / second wives posting here about how their income is not part of child support calculation: Correct. I suppose that's how it should be. But it's tough when your child's father quits his high paying job to freelance and make almost nothing and live off his new wife's salary and pay his ex-wife diddly. And isn't it odd that when it comes time for financial aid, whether it's independent school or college, suddenly, your income counts in the equation? This totally screws children of divorce.
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Oh please, kids just lie about the income. My husband's kids got financial aid but refuse to talk to dad about it so they probably pretended dad was not involved/never paid support. |
| Sorry PP it doesn't work that way. Schools and colleges require both parents' financials and signatures. My friend's daughter's father is out of the picture but every year her daughter was in college she had to find him for the college FA forms. The parents apply for FA, not the kids. Guess why? To prevent scams! |
No they don't. Two of three kids went to college and none discussed it with my husband or had him sign anything. Of course it is to prevent scams. So either they lied saying he wasn't involved or they forged his name. |
Thanks and OMG I had to google Banff. Sigh- OP |
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Then take him? Oh that's right, he's told us and others he thinks he's bad and doesnt want him (2yr old btw). |
| OP--can you provide a rational reason why you feel you are entitled to increased CS based on the new wife's income? I guess what I'm asking is why should she be financially obligated for a child she did not have? |
This is not true. My dad had custody of me growing up. My mother made probably twice what he earned, and didn't pay a cent for college. I got aid, scholarships, and used college savings from my dad. Was pretty surprised recently when my mom started talking about the money she had saved for me for college, that she's now getting out of those accounts. Uh, what? No hard feelings - we didn't ask for her to pay, and we were all on good terms. I chalk it up to a mom oddity. I made it through college and grad school and easily paid of my loans. |
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Your stepsons either did not get FA or committed fraud.Or this was years ago, and things were different. 10:46 Not sure when this was. Here's how things work today. You're highminded and noble not to hold this against your mother! http://www.finaid.org/questions/divorce.phtml |
I just don't read the OP this way. Her XH is hiding behind his new wife. OP is interested if there are any options at all. I think her XH sounds like a cheat. Sadly, I don't think there's a lot OP can do, except realize these are all reasons why they are divorced and to thank god every day she's rid of him. |