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Re read the divorce, it has to say somewhere init.

My step daughter turned 18 in September (she was home schooled but if she had attended a public school she would have graduated in June) we had to pay until her 18th birthday. Thank goodness it's done.

I'm doing my cheerleading hoorah for you! Big finish with a cartwheel and splits! Yeah your just two days away from being done! Enjoy the freedom that has been long deserved sweetie! :)

Ahhh to be the only wife now.... as far as I'm concerned the ex wife never existed now that we don't have to pay her any money. It's a beautiful life.

Kat,

I wondered where you where. A Landrover and now you can even afford the gas! :) I guess it's not a RV but it's a big pull behind with a loft and extended room. It looks like a cottage inside and not something you would camp in. I'd love to come to Virginia and camp by your home by the water.:) Actually dd was in Va for a mission trip and said it's beautiful.

This week our paycheck will pay all of our bills and have enough for gas and groceries too. My pay is just for fun! Our middle ds has his 7th birthday in a week and I was thinking I might see about taking the four older kids to Cedar Point (an amusement park about an hour from here) for the day. They would all love it and we can afford it now.:)

Congrats to you too. Werrrrrree Freeeeeeeee! Finally!

Dh paid our last cs payment yesterday. Of course they changed us $70 in arrearage (funny it's been pulled right from his paycheck from day #1 so how he was behind is a wonder but now it's over. We waited fourteen years (wow that seemed like a long time but then not so long too) for it to end and since we have not seen sd in 9 years due to a severe PAS issue with her mother (that nobody seemed to think was her fault, just ours for not trying hard enough...yeah whatever) we are done.

Now what to do with all that money that we earn and get to keep now. We are buying a RV to take on famliy vacations and we'll be able to afford them, we're paying off a few bills that have been lingering and we are just going to live a little easeir from now on. Ahhhhh life is sweet!

Thanks for letting me air this out here where everyone knows just what I'm talking about. I'll be anxious to see what sd does with the huge amount of $$ that her grandparents have been giving her the last 18 years (over $200,000 in the bank she gets when she turns 18 next week). I hope somebody has taught her to have more sence then her mother has or she'll blow it on new cars,beer and parties and hopefully still end up alive.  

I met dh when sd was only 4 so I know just what your talking about. Now that it's finally here the only thing I feel bad about is wanting my own kids lives to move faster so we could be done. Our oldest dd is 14 so this will help with a third car and all the extras that come with high school. Funny the ex took us back when sd started high school showing she had a need for more money, but then a month later pulled her out to home school her. I know home school is not free but it has to be cheaper then public school (lunches,extra class fees on top of book fees, sports fees, gas for running to the school three times a day etc.

Actually we decided that we will pay the full amount the beginning of August so we can skip the Sept payment. Then we will be done

Uggggghhhh! We have nine more weeks of child support left and sd turns 18 on Sept 1st. Two weeks ago dh got papers to sign and send in wanting us to tell when we thought she would be emancipated and the ex also got the same papers. Today dh called to see when they payment would end and csb said we would be done the first but would still have to pay two weeks after her birthday because we owe them fees for stopping the child support. It's not like we don't pay them poundage every week towards for this so why do we have to pay for the whole month since it's only one day? Dh asked if they could pull the amount the week prior and they said that's not how their computers work. Yeah they only screw the dads not themselves. So is there any way to fight over $100 worth of fees that are for only one day of the month? Can we pay for that extra week in August and be done before Sept to be able to skip the fees? I just wondered how this whole thing works.

Thanks for listening. Dh says let it go we are finally done and we can't change things but I say hey it's our money and we've waited 15 years to finally get it.

It just makes me glad that we only have four more months to support a woman who just decided to sell Avon last year and that is her first job she has had in 20 years! We work full time but too soon our money will be all ours again and dh can finally take his big hunting trip he's wanted for years. He leaves two weeks after sd turns 18.:)

It seems like forever ago since I posted that we had a year and a half left and here we are both going to be done with cs in just a few short months. YEAH!! My dh's pay will cover all our bills and we will still have money left over. I'll still work but we won't have to depend on my income and can use it for things we both want, a new van, dh wants to go on a hunting trip to Colorado with some friends, we can actually afford to pay for cheerleading that our dd is doing. I won't have to skip a house payment in a 5 pay month just to buy school clothes. I can use what we paid her and buy for all four of the school age kids with no problems. :)

Finally we can see the end of the rainbow....isn't it grand?

we live in Ohio and dh's divorce papers say he has to pay until she graduates high school or turns 18 which ever comes last. So if sd were attending school (she dropped out two years ago) she would graduate in May but since she's not we pay until September when she turns 18. And that is only a little over five months away. :) Yeah for us.