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Advice From Anyone With Experience With Child Support Modifications

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I am married to a man that has 50/50 custody and visitation with his two daughters. When they were divorced they both had comparable jobs so neither paid child support. About two years ago BM remarried and quit her job to be a SAHM. She subsequently sued DH for child support since she was now unemployed and was awarded CS from DH for his two kids.

Advice From People Who Have Teenage Steps

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I have a 13 yr old step daughter. We have carried her cell phone on our plan since she was 11. We allowed her to take the phone back and forth with her on visits to BM. She recently got grounded from her cell phone for a week. BM did not agree with her being punished so she bought her a new cell phone on her plan.

Advice From People Who Have Teenage Steps

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I have a 13 yr old step daughter. We have carried her cell phone on our plan since she was 11. We allowed her to take the phone back and forth with her on visits to BM. She recently got grounded from her cell phone for a week. BM did not agree with her being punished so she bought her a new cell phone on her plan.

Talking To Your Kids About Court

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Needing some advice on the "right thing to do".

If any of you read my blog you know that BM recently took us to court for child support because she had three additional children (5 total) and wanted to be a stay at home mom. We have joint physical custody and the kids reside with us approx. 60% of the time. Child support was never ordered because when BM was working her and DH made the same amount and had close to the same visitation.

Court Question

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Does anyone know if there are penalties for failing to answer discoveries by the deadline? BM is taking us to court of a number of things. Our court date was set back in November for the first of February. She was due to return discoveries on December 28th so we could prepare for court but still has not returned them.

Is Anyone Aware That States Get Federal Incentives To Collect Child Support?!

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BM is taking us back to court to try and get child support from DH...our court date is in just a few weeks. DH has 50/50 custody and child support was never exchanged because he and BM had approximately equal income and visitation. She now remarried a man and had two additional children with him that he wants her to stay home and care for. She quit her job and now wants DH to pay her to be a stay at home mother.

SK's, BM and Facebook

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Our oldest SD(12) has a Facebook account under the conditions that we have her password and she is fully aware that we check it periodically to make sure she is using it appropriately. BM is totally aware of this also.

So DH and I log in last night to check out her activity and see that BM posted the following to her wall which is, of course totally viewable by SD:

Head Lice....Again. What. If Anything Can We Say To BM?

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So SD (12) got head lice again. We have treated it three times now and she is still coming home from BM's with it. So we find out this weekend that even though BM knows perfectly well that SD has lice she is still allowing her to spend the night with people/have people spend the night with her.

What Hers Is Hers and Whats Mine Is Hers

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Halloween is going to be here in just a few days! One of our favorite holidays, the SK's and I have been planning their costumes since the first of September Smile

BM emailed DH this morning and apparently there is a costume party this weekend and she wants to borrow the costumes that we put together for the kids so she can take them and not have to spend any money.

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