I'll make this as short as I can because it's a little complicated. My ex wife and I divorced in May of last year and have one daughter who was 17 at the time. She's now 18. In working up our agreement, maintenance and child support were rolled into one payment, classified as maintenance for $900 per month with me as payer. The agreement states that there's no child support order and residence was set at 50/50 with a set schedule included.
About 4 weeks after our divorce was ratified by the judge, she kicked our daughter out of her place over a trifling incident and had the police there overseeing her packing up all her things (all of them) and took back the house key. I have texts from that day where I'm trying to talk her out of it as well as one she sent to our daughter acknowledging she might not see her for a while. She has since backpedaled and said she only meant for that night or whatever.
So since then our daughter has been living with me basically 100% of the time, is happy here and has stayed the night at her mom's roughly once a month. I approached her on a couple of occasions asking if we could modify the agreement (cut it in half basically so she'd be getting $450) but she refused. She also declined to make a counter offer.
NY state guidelines say that child support goes to 21 unless the child is in the military or self supporting. My daughter has a very low paying job and is not in school (yet) so she's still completely dependent on me. I've filed a petition for CS about two weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet about a court date. I"m simply looking for help with all the extra expenses because the way it is now I'm not sure how I'll afford a two bedroom apartment for us for much longer.
So my question is, given the background, does anyone have an idea of my chance for success with this? Even if it's not so good I"m going to go through with it just so she has to go on the record with what she's doing.
Also generally if people want to chime in with what to expect that would be very welcome. I've heard that I get to speak my piece, is this true?
Written By: huhwhat1983
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