My wife is having trouble getting child support from her ex-husband. Her son lives with us full time and his dad sees him every other weekend (when he decides to come get him). He is supposed to be paying 85.00 per week and is currently 6000.00+ behind as he might pay once every 2 months. Now his income tax is supposed to cover any back child support that he is behind, but the problem is that he seems to be working for cash. He tells her that he just doesn't have the money to pay the child support, but he opened his own auto repair garage, he buys new vehicles every other week, he just bought a new house, and to top it off, we just found out that his 18 year old girlfriend is pregnant (he is almost 40). My wife has been talking to her case worker that handles her case (when she can actually get her on the phone) and she just gets the runaround. My wife is really fed up with all of this ( I am too, but I try to stay out of their situation). And on top of all of that, his dad keeps threatening that when Jacob turns 12, he is going to take them to court and get Jacob to tell the judge that he wants to live with his daddy. Anyone got any suggestions? His dad is a real piece of crap! For example, this weekend he went to his dad's. He had on a good pair of school shorts and a new pair of Nike tennis shoes that we had bought him for school. He comes back with crappy old shoes, and some torn up blue jeans. His dad will keep the stuff that we buy him over there, so he don't have to buy anything. And what is bought for Jacob over there comes from his grandma. Not to mention the fact that his daddy didn't even make him brush his teeth the entire weekend!! It's ridiculous!
Should we be talking to a lawyer or what? We really don't have the money to hire one and take it to court....but something needs to be done.
Should we be talking to a lawyer or what? We really don't have the money to hire one and take it to court....but something needs to be done.
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