Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You don't get your child's father involved. You move on. Children aren't meal tickets and some men want zero involvement--c'est la vie.
You need to figure out a way to make money and be stable for your child. The sooner you realize that you are better off if it's all on you, the better. Making your child's life one full of love and comfort can only ever assuredly come from you.
I understand where you are... I have wigged out about child support in the past. Then I accepted the fact that my ex will lie about his income; based upon my similar declared income, I will get next to nothing. I now count on nothing. I literally don't ever expect a check, I have to be able to support our entire lifestyle FULLY without his money. The rest is fluff.
Signed,
A Single Mom Who Begged For More Child Support
Ignore above. Get the order and
let them haul him to jail if he doesn't pay.
Hahahahahahaha! If only it actually worked that way.
File for CS, but don't EVER count on it. Esp if the father doesn't want anything to do with DC or if he's unreliable at all. Figure out how to make it work on your own.
I get CS, but I only get it about 50% of the time. My XH (we were
married, not just a one-night-stand) refused to pay for over a year and racked up almost $10K in arrears before child support enforcement caught up to him. He paid for a year, and recently stopped again. Enforcement wouldn't do a thing until he was 3mo behind, which he knew, so the 4th month (after getting a letter from them), he sent in a check. Then nothing again.
I've learned to not rely on any money from him (and yes, I do need it). When I get it, it goes towards savings or debt. XH is also in and out of DC's life, appearing every 2-6mo or so for a weekend or a month of normal visits. To be perfectly honest, the half-in-half-out is horrible. It screws DC up. I wish he'd either step up or step out. Just be consistent.
Anyway, you cannot force him to be an involved father and while you can get an order for him to pay, be aware that there are ways to game the system. If he's going to be unreliable, you need to look at him as an 'extra' for your child, not someone to be depended on.