Should i still have to pay child support?
There is no right or wrong answer here. I’m just looking for common sense responses. This child (woman) is now 19 yrs old. She graduated high school in may 2008. According to Missouri law she is required to advise of her intent of schooling. By no later than Oct following high school graduation she was supposed to send an official transcript and i never received anything. In March 2009 i find out she is attending college and her GPA is 1.16. All during this time she was not working and had the time to achieve academic performance and failed to do so. In addition she has only signed up for tech school classes that only take one semester and failed that. She attended summer 2008 and fall 2008 and could not pass the classes. Now she has gone to another school program (spring 2009)and again it is for a tech class. She has not taken one single class toward obtaining a degree from a college (classes that are of required not elective). We advised the child support agency and had to get an attorney and go to court but the mother has the child support agency on her side and we could not get the support stopped. Actually the law says if the child does not provide the paper work such as an official transcript the child support can end, but it didn’t. Why does this law exist if the courts won’t support it? Also she refuses to work, and ended her association with the air force (was to go to boot camp in Oct 2009. I do believe this is just a way to stay home and not have to work, live with her mom and have free money ($500.00 per month child support).
All of the child support if up to date as of dec 2008. The law in Missouri says if the child goes to continuing school you have to pay-but don’t they have to pass these classes and make an attempt to become part of the working society.
Child support ends at 18, does it not?
Actually I think a lot of kids run off to college just so they don’t have to work.
This sounds like BullZhit to me……
You may have to pay two more years, till she’s 21. It may be that since the child support office knows she’s failing and not working they think your money is still essential to your daughter’s development and education depending on the financial situation of the mother.
I’ve always been under then impression that once the child turned 18 it was your choice whether you continued to pay or not. Unless of course it’s back child support that you didn’t pay when she was younger…. in which case there’s no way out of it til your caught up…
I have a 19 year old that is in college. I would ask her father for help if I needed it but not make it required. My daughter helps herself by working. She pays her own car note and insurance and buys everything she needs without asking me for any money. I do pay for her college and rooming but other than that she does for herself. She is considered an adult by law. By the way my daughter’s father passed away 6 years ago and they cut off her social security servivors benefits at 18 college or not so if the government don’t help after they turn 18 so why should you be required to. If your daughter were doing well in school if figure you would want to help her and if she was working and trying to help herself it would be different but it sounds to me like she is using college to keep from having to work. I am a woman and I think that dads get the short end some times on this child support stuff. Some moms do too though by not getting any help from the childs father. Anyway I think that you should not have to pay child support for a child that is not trying in school.
you need to get an attorney and have him figure it out because it is the law they have to follow it. however your attorney can make them provide a transcript and if they don’t that will be grounds for termination. plus if she don’t you maybe able to get all the money you paid back.
sounds like it is bunch of BS to me .. you need to get an attorney
not to be out of line here but she is your child to no??? did you not try to help raise her with morals and such so that she would get a job and education to help better herself rather than mooch off someone else??
You mentioned( We advised the child support agency and had to get an attorney and go to court).
The first thing would be to find a attorney that specialize in this type of law, it is obvious this one has no idea.
I can bet he took your money, has he provided you with copy’s of the law that you mentioned, and give you some guidance.
If you don’t like it you could stop paying and get thrown into jail.
Fighting this will only make you look cheap, it’ll cost you more, and you’ll STILL probably lose.
But if you think it’s worth it. Then by all means, fight away.
damn man their screwing you big time. first of all you aint suppose to be paying child support if the damn kid is 18 or older. once their 18 the stupid agency is suppose to stop bothering you for those checks. secondly you should’nt of gotten married, women love when guys marry them because they know that once they divorce you, the stupid law will automatically be on their side.
some states have child support until 21 if child is attending school.
…i don’t think it is fair,but,it is what it is.
Did you actually go to court, or rely on a decision by child support enforcement? I got the requirements included in the law in 1989. I’m in KCMO.
We can discuss this in Dads House and determine your next steps to take.
http://dads-house.org/
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