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Are expenses calculated in for CS

Kasey21's picture

Submitted by Kasey21 on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 10:15am

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Just wondering if monthly expenses are factored into CS. I know the FL state have a figure for how much it costs to raise two children, and overheads are taken into account. But BM has a standard of living that she cannot afford and wants the CS increased because of this. For example we do our own yard work and house cleaning, she pays to have these things done and complains that she cannot live on the current CS.

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Submitted by just.his.wife on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 10:23am

No they are not. Fl is directly NET INCOME driven. (Amt after taxes and withholdings). The only time they normally will take monthly expenses into consideration is

a) Medical bills for a child that is SIGNIFICANTLY handicapped.
b) Child care.

Note: Florida did just pass a law, that if bio Fathers want 50/50 custody: all they have to do is go to court and ask for it.

Unless bm can prove him unfit... it is granted. Perhaps if you put that bug in BMs ear she will lay off. Because if dad gets half custody there goes her CS.

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Submitted by misSTEP on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 11:33am

First off, you might want to make her aware that CS is considered to be support for the CHILD...not for her to live on. And that children have TWO parents and CS paid by one parent is supposed to be only HALF of what they need to be raised.

Secondly, what just.his.wife said.

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Submitted by Kasey21 on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 11:38am

Thanks! She wants more time with the kids so that her CS can be increased but will have a hard time proving he is unfit. She figured out that the only way to get more money is to have the kids more, right now its 60% her and 40% us. She is undertaking a consistent alienation and now pushing to have a GAL involved so that the kids choose to live with her. They repeat back all of her crap to us and none of it is reality. If my DH gets angry at his daughter (14) when she is bothering her younger brother, pinching him, kicking him etc. she shouts back at him that he is "abusive" and "needs anger management classes" that sort of thing. BM is filling the two kids with all sort of nonsence and that any form of ordinary discipline is abuse. Meanwhile she lets them do whatever they want and be rude, disrespectul etc. My DH is fighting this all the way and we continue to teach the kids respect as we do with my own bio kids. When he confiscated SD's laptop last week for her bad behavior, she ran to the phone to call BM to report that he was being abusive to her. I just hope that the court system is aware of parent's who lie like this and manipulate.