My husband moved from PA to NC to be with me. We have known each other for a very long time (he was my first boyfriend at the age of 14!). I loved him then as I do now (just more mature now). I wasn't pregnant when he proposed to me, but 2 months later I became pregnant. Because of child support reasons (they told us that because he was paying so much ($129.89 a week) that if we got married sooner that would change his child support), but when we called the day we got married they told us it wouldn't be lowered at all; but raised. And only after the new baby was born will the child support go down; and they told us that we would have to show paternity testing that this child was truely his. I used to live in PA and my mother used to be a paralegal there. Why is the child support office making our lives HELL? Could his ex be telling them lies? (By the way she only has him 2 weeks out of the month, and child support doesn't count that out of her monthly money!)
2007-11-23 06:48:34 · 1 answers · asked by Mum of 2 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
This is not an ex wife, she was just a girlfriend.... I'm his first wife.
2007-11-23 07:33:30 · update #1
The laws vary from state to state,but it sounds like Pa is trying to make you pay to help pay additional child support to his ex,which you are not required to do.
Your husband needs to get a lawyer and go back to family court or whatever and get the child support altered or get custody of the child and make his ex pay child support.
The paternity test is to show that your baby is actually his and that he is obligated to help provide for the baby and that he is not claiming (falsely) that he has another child with another woman to reduce the child support to his ex.
The child support office cannot alter the support payments,the ex wife has to go to court and get a new judgment.
Then they can enforce the new support level.
If they are trying to collect support payments from your income,you may be able to sue the office and get your money and then some back. And yes,you can sue the government and any agency as well as any person employed there.
GET LEGAL HELP
2007-11-23 07:22:25 · answer #1 · answered by Ralph T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋