Our divorce decree states that the father pays $2300 a month in child support of minor children until the youngest reaches age of 18. No where does it say it decreases as each child reaches 18. It only states he pays that amount until youngest is 18. As each child once 18 will spend 4-5 years in college and can't support themselves or pay their car insurance and car that I have pay for. Please clarify?
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I feel bad you are going through this.
To get the correct answer, you will need to talk to the person/lawyer who drew up the decree to get the true meaning. I don't think anyone on any social media site can answer this except to guess and that would not be cool.
Post back what you learn! Prayers for you and your kids!
Divorces are negotiated. It must be agreed that the father will pay for college. It is not mandatory. Talk to your lawyer.
I believe you may just be splitting hairs but the only way you will be able to clarify this to your satisfaction will be to take the degree back to court for review.
Of course, this is something that should have been set up when the divorce was filed so it may be too late to make these demands.
I do not know how many children are involved but you may be able to keep the support payment from dropping drastically.
There actually should have been a notation as to how much the support payment would drop as each child reached 18 years of age.
An attorney may be expensive but I would suggest you take your divorce papers and ask for a free consultation to see if it would benefit you to return to court.
I would really talk with your lawyer about this and clarify the terms of the agreement. It does sound like you will receive child support the X number of years at the set amount of money. Your child support will end when your youngest child turns 18.
Keep in mind that the father at any time can go to court also and have this changed! He can also be awarded a judgement to have it changed after each child turns 18, along with a decrease.Example if you have a 2 year old and 17 year old,meaning the 17 year old would get child support at almost 33 years of age, because of a younger sibling!Communicate with him,so you will not be surprised!
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