Can child support go up a substantial amount without the other parent asking for it to go up?
My fiance and I have been together for almost 3.5 years now. He have 3 kids from his past - two kids from one mother, and 1 child from another. We just got a sense in the mail today that they are raising his child support up another 250.00 a month. We hold been struggling to make our bills and he spent the past 4 months just working about 3 days of the week. He makes good money, but by the time that they are done taking his current child support out he is departed with almost nothing. At 15.60 an hour, it is sad when you can lone bring home 1200.00 a month when you are working 40 hours a week. Plus, we drive 2 hours to go see the kids and bring them clothes and new shoes and toys all the time. This comes out of my money which is okay because if we don't later the kids' don;t get these things. The children's mother in this instance/ county where it only went up, is mad because my fiance won't sleep with her and progress back to her and the fact that we/ I make sure that we are verbs when we go up there and that we have nice things to live contained by. Anyway, he is always current with his payments of 200.00 a week; is there a use that the child support agency would just up his support amount? They had previously ordered it to be less when they originally go 4 years ago because of the distance that he travels to go see them, and the fact that he is always bringing them things. Could she own initiated this? Please help! We need some answers.
Best Answer:
It may depend on the State you are in. Here within Texas, child support orders can be amended but only after one of the parties asks for teh amendment and proves the amendment is party and in the best interest of the child. The court does't care that his ex wants him to sleep beside her, or that you drive a nice car or wear nice clothes or that she is jealous. I don't know why you felt the entail to tell us that. All the courts is looking at is his income v. what the child needs. If your fiance can't afford the new child support proclaim then he needs to go support to court to demonstrate this.
Recent law school grad in Texas
