Court this week

[snowrose]

We filed for Child Support a month ago.  The court requires that BM file a Financial Statement within 30 days and give us a copy.  We've gotten nothing from her.  

[Kitty C.]

Do you know if your state will input her income if she fails to provide it?  Does she have any training or license/certification in a specific field?  If so, then you might want to google the going salary rates for that profession in your area, take it with you to court, and hopefully the judge wil input that.  But if she has no specific field of training, they might input at min. wage.

[snowrose]

They do impute income.  She and her partner shared a couples job, and I was looking on some of the job search sites and they come up with income (for the couple) of $32,000 to $40,000 per year.  Plus she told us she was still on Disability.  But that could either be a lie to get us to leave her alone or it could be that she's been duping the government and not telling them her real income - reporting it as only her partner's income.  She's lied about things like this before, with not telling Disability when she had other income providers living with her.

Would it even be worth it to try to force document disclosure and get her bank records?  If she didn't answer the first paperwork (which seems kinda stupid as that means that she loses without even pleading her case) then she could just as easily ignore another request for paperwork.  That would mean contempt charges, but it's not unusual for BM's to ignore contempt charges too.