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It was not for CURRENT child support this was only for BACK child support. At that time the balance was about $10,000. The case was set-aside at that time and not being enforced but only for the prior back child support. I am correct at what I stated directly from the case workers mouth in Washington State!

After they started the $500 a month back child support garnishment they re-opened the case changed it to only $100 a month for back support and added current support with it to make it about $350 a month.  It took them 1 week notice that it was going to happen and 6 weeks to correct it. My husband couldn't even afford to live with what is left over by himself.

As far as I know. He was served papers before he was 17. They stopped enforcing the order in 2001. The case was closed or set-aside. She contacted them a couple of months ago and asked to re-open the case. They sent her some paper work... she sent it back.. they sent my husband a bill for over $33,000 in back support. I am not saying she doesn't deserve to have support. It just the way the State went about garnishing the money. They started at $500 a month and they said they thought he was making $30 an hour.. it takes 1 week for them to start garnishing.. and to have it changed takes 4 paychecks!!!

Well coming up with that much money is not an option. We are barely making it paycheck to paycheck. Her reason for even contacting my husband was for the son to know his father. She told us she was not looking for any $$ but since they was already garnishing for child support owed prior to 2001 she thought she should get it. By doing that they re-opened the case and back dated and charged him for it.

What is the most legal amount of child support that can be garnished from an individual?  They are going by washington state rules, the child now lives in indiana and we are in Oklahoma. UGH!

The cs case was closed in 2001. She just decided to reopen the case. If she agrees to waive the back child support will the courts recognize that?

My husband does have a good job. Actually he has 2 jobs now. The amount they was garnishing was over half of his pay. Plus he has another child that he is paying child support for. Right now between the 2 kids they are garnishing over $700 a month. He makes $14/hr. We also have a 15 mo. old son to take care of. So my husband has 3 kids and between the 2 with child suport he can't even afford to live without my income. Thank god I am the breadwinner or we would be on welfare!

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.

The ex is being so controlling. We have had regular visitation for over 3 years and NOW she thinks that the daughter needs only a 2 hour supervised visit every other week? She thinks she can get that because of their relationship that was over 3 years ago because they had physical arguements (nothing to do with the daughter!). My husband loves his daughter so much.  She kept us from seeing his daughter on fathers day. When she said we could not come get her, this broke my husbands heart. Now the daugther that is ONLY 4 years old thinks her daddy doesn't love her and is a monster. The ex is MENTALLY abusing the daughter.  She told us that we will not get to see her again until we go back to court which is the end of next month. We have not seen her now since June 2!! She knows she was wrong for keeping her from us this last weekend and now wants to bargain... she will let us take her on vacation that we have had planned for the last 5 months (that she ok'd and we bought a plane ticket for the daughter) if we don't throw her in jail for contempt!!

So because she does not want us to have joint legal custody that we shouldn't get it? That makes no SENSE! She has no reason why we can't share except for her not to benefit from all the child support, insurance and tax credit she gets and to hold it over us that my husband has no rights any time she wants to.  She is used to live 60 miles away then she moved farther away. She expects us to do all the driving. That is over $100  and 400+ miles on my car everytime we go to get and take her back plus everything else we provide. Is it wrong to ask her to do half the driving. (she says she is a housewife and doesn't work in her husbands auto salvage business) So she said she has no income. except what child support she gets which is about $400 a month!

So you are saying that Joint Custody only works if the parents live close together? I can't seem to understand what is wrong with the picture that the mother thinks she can control every situation between her daughter and the father.  We have her on tape saying that she will not allow him to see his daughter anymore, but don't stop calling her. The new husband called my husband a F-N idiot!  (they live in an old trailer on a salvage yard!).  It is sad when we have to take her back that she cries because she doesn't want to go. I would never want to keep her from her mother, but she clearly isn't putting Mica first. She is being selfish.

The standard visitation is very vague. Everyother weekend, and everyother holiday. So you are saying that we don't have a right to have Joint Physical Custody when she is the one trying to extort money from us and causing grief to her daughter by not letting her daughter see her dad? She is alienating her from us. She lies, theatens us and is very manipulative.