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My husband, when he was 16 fathered a child with an 18 year old. At that time they lived in NW USA. Before the child was born he moved back to NE USA. They served him with papers for child support when he was 16 or 17 (a minor). He was unable to hire an attorney & be at the hearing that was held. They awarded the BM $242 a month in CS. My husband did not have the means or ability to provide for the child. He had no contact with the child until recently.  The child is now 13 years old. The BM located my husband and since then she called the NW state and had the case re-opened and they sent him a bill for over $34,000 in back child support.  Is there anything we can do to contest this back support?

My husband and his ex have a 4 year old daughter. He has has liberal visitation for the last 3 years. She has Sole Custody but he has visitation. Now she has decided that we cannot see the daughter til we go back to court... July 27!  She says she now wants supervised visititations for my husband. They had an altercation 4 years ago (2003) and she threw him in jail for Domestic abuse. Since then the case was dismissed (2005) because she signed an affadavit saying that she over reacted and it never really happened. Does she have just cause for him to only have supervised visititation? Nothing has happened since the altercation in 2003. She denied us visitation on Father's Day weekend!! We have not seen the daughter since June 2.

My husband has a 4 year old daughter from a previous marriage. At the time of the divorce he was out of state and she went to court and recieved Sole Custody in the state of Oklahoma. Since this time, he has paid his child support and there was a point where we was allowed to get the daughter when we wanted. (It was almost every weekend). That was until she moved in with her now husband.  I would say in the last year and a half, the ex has become crazy. She agrees to visitation, then mid visitation she changes the plans or tries to cut our visitation short. The daughter was enrolled in a private school this last august 06'. The mother provided us with a reciept for the whole tuition of $1700 that she said she paid. We agreed to pay half. We had been giving her checks since she gave us a receipt. In December, she said that we needed to do something about the school. This gave us concern that she did not tell us the truth. I called the school to find out if she actually paid the tuition like the receipt states.... SHE HAD NOT PAID A DIME! The teacher said she did not sign the receipt. So from then on we paid the school our half. As of this day she has not paid her half. She accuses my husband of being unstable... which he has had the same job for the last 2 years (and provides insurance) and we bought a house 2 years ago as well. So we aren't going anywhere. We live about 120 miles away from his daughter. She has made reference several times that he has no rights and has no say in what happens with the daughter. When we say we are going by the plans already agreed to she says we are with holding her daughter from her. Any question about what is going on.. she says he owes her for something or he is a bad person & father.  What is wrong with him wanting to be apart of his daughters life. Do we have enough evidence to prove that we deserve Joint Custody & physical custody? We have kept the forged receipt and emails that have cooresponded with inquiries of her plans.