Gotta love it. DH's ex had her attorney send us a letter requesting financial info to re-evaluate child support. Under normal circumstances, the length of time since the last evaluation is long enough to consider this a reasonable request.
However, in the past 12 months, the child in question has been held back in school due to a lack of support at home, and has been diagnosed with what is basically pre-adolescent depression. Also, Child Protective Services have investigated her (not due to us) for neglect several times (nothing has stuck yet - neglect is extremely hard to prove) and a local agency has a case worker working with him in school and with the counselors. Added on top of this the number of times she's called and said, "He needs this," and we've taken care of it, it's frustrating, to say the least.
This fall, we single-handedly (well, DH and I) have taken care of soccer and football seasons with absolutely no help from her, financially, rides or otherwise. That's practices and games 6 days a week, plus equipment purchases and fees. And she only showed up to one game this last session. For her own child. Way to be there for him, mom.
And do you know why I think she's doing this now? She broke up with her latest sugar-daddy and Christmas is right around the corner. There is always a new boyfriend around Christmas who usually gets dumped shortly after. It never ceases to amaze me how easily she finds guy after guy after guy after guy willing to hand over money and his charge cards to her. I tell you, she is the best dressed welfare mom I've seen in a while. She's always going on trips too. We had our step-son over for Thanksgiving this year, which means the youngest brother was at his dad's too. Did she have a special family dinner for her and the older son (sadly, his dad is not in the picture)? Nope. She packed him off to a friend's house and went to Arkansas to make up with the last boyfriend.
So DH and I are busy trying to find a new attorney, to at least make sure we don't lose our shirts on this child support deal.
Sigh.
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