DH was laid off in October and in his defense, he has been looking frantically every single day to get another job. He had a couple of very promising interviews this past week, so hopefully something comes out of that.
To answer your questions..
DH is the primary custodian 75% DH / 25% with PBFH since Sept 2003. Before that it was 65% DH / 35% PBFH.... we never had a child support order put in place because it was $25 a month when BM was working her min. wage job. (It wasn't worth stress of dragging the $ out of her)
When PBFH moved (which was only because she found a house she liked out of the area) she quit her job (which was considerable more than min wage) and refused the employers offer to telecommute from her new location. As we see it, she is capable of earning, but just chooses not too. Her husband still lives down here, he has to keep working to make the new house payment.
Anyway, the guideline based on DH's old salary and Min Wage for BM is for her to pay $300/ month, we were trying to get her to agree to below guideline since she is not working, but she turned her nose up at that. So we turned it over to the state. I think she is now figuring out that she will have to pay something and is trying to get DH to back off.
BM hasn't contributed to any of the medical/ educational expenses since she left them with DH almost 10 years ago. It is just getting frustrating.
Sorry this is so long.... I'll stop ranting now.
Thanks for your feedback!!
FTK
To answer your questions..
DH is the primary custodian 75% DH / 25% with PBFH since Sept 2003. Before that it was 65% DH / 35% PBFH.... we never had a child support order put in place because it was $25 a month when BM was working her min. wage job. (It wasn't worth stress of dragging the $ out of her)
When PBFH moved (which was only because she found a house she liked out of the area) she quit her job (which was considerable more than min wage) and refused the employers offer to telecommute from her new location. As we see it, she is capable of earning, but just chooses not too. Her husband still lives down here, he has to keep working to make the new house payment.
Anyway, the guideline based on DH's old salary and Min Wage for BM is for her to pay $300/ month, we were trying to get her to agree to below guideline since she is not working, but she turned her nose up at that. So we turned it over to the state. I think she is now figuring out that she will have to pay something and is trying to get DH to back off.
BM hasn't contributed to any of the medical/ educational expenses since she left them with DH almost 10 years ago. It is just getting frustrating.
Sorry this is so long.... I'll stop ranting now.
Thanks for your feedback!!
FTK