Does your ex pay his support?
By sweetdesign
@sweetdesign (5142)
United States
May 29, 2007 7:47am CST
i am getting ready to go downtown and open an enforcement case against my ex husband for his child support that he is not paying. Once again I find myself having to do something I shouldn't have to do because he can't be mature enough to pay his support on his own but has to be forced to pay it. I haven't had to deal with this in 7 years cause they were garnishing him and I was keeping track of where he was working. Now he moved out of the state that was handling our case (I moved from there 2 years ago but since he was still living there I continued to let them handle it) and he quit the job he had and didn't work at all for 3 months. He started a new job in March and he hasn't paid a dime in support since December 2006. Granted I don't receive much ($200/month for one child) but our daughter needs things and he is responsible for paying his support. I am now opening a case against him in Florida. Technically this means that he has three states against him AR where we originally hadour case, MO where he currently lives and FL where I live. He did not bother to answer any of the letters sent to him by AR child support enforcement. And he lied to his own child and said that he did. He told her it was all taken care of and that child support enforcement would be taking his support out of his paycheck and that she would get it soon.
Does anyone else have to deal with this sort of thing from their ex? Does your ex pay his support?
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
30 May 07
Deadbeat dads! OK—I for one- don’t get any support- part of it is my own fault- I never went and made him pay- Sure he should be a man and just pay it- I’ve asked that he only split the cost of daycare with me- Then he pulled the- it’s not my fault you are working- and he wrote me a check and it bounced- I was miffed- that was about 6 years ago- I am happily with another wonderful man and he supports my daughter way more than her own father- I often at times think I should go file and make him pay- Put it away for college- but I haven’t. I feel bad for him- because he is struggling and I’m not- but that is his choice- So I say good luck to you- I hope that you get his money soon- for your childs sake!
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
30 May 07
Your fortunate to have such support from a good man. I can't believe your ex would bounce a check to you that is so lame. Of course mine never paid his support on his own it has been garnished from his wages from the git go cause he is so irresponsible. I went and started the paperwork yesterday all they are waiting for is for AR child support to send a payment history and order papers and then they will take over. So I am waiting for my former caseworker to call me back. She was supposed to have sent that two weeks ago.


