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My partner has been divorced for over 5 years and pays an enourmous amount of child support, on time every month. His ex wife harasses him all the time for more moeny, threatens to take him back to court, report him to the IRS, FTC, etc. This has been going on off and on for the entire time but recently his 18 year old daughter moved in with us and he no longer pays support for her. Now it is worse, she calls every month with more threats, tells friends and family around town he is a deadbeat dad, doesn''t pay his support on time. She is threatneing to take him back to court to receive more money for the 2 children left living with her. He gave her everything in the divorce and took all the debt. It totalled about $280,000, which she blew though in less then 2 years. She is now remarried with another child, has no job and living well beyond her means. What are his rights? How can he get her to stop harassing him and is there a judge in their right minds who would give her more money?

 

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Askedg her to nicely stop, giving in to her requests. contacted court to make sure his support payments were within the legal limits, they were. he was told she is being highly unreasonable by the court rep since he was paid $4500 in advance and has always paid onthe first per the law and agreement.

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May 5 3:04 PM (14 minutes and 37 seconds later)
         
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May 5 3:23 PM (18 minutes and 23 seconds later)
         
He makes the same amount of money he did when they divorced. And he now has 2 additional small children.

There are no hearings set for any support issues so how can he tell a judge he wants her to stop? Can he file some sort of a greivance, defamation suit, counter custody suit, which he is considering doing as they are old enough to spend time away from their mother at this point. It is also dammaging his relationship with his children, particularly the middle child. She has been saying her fahter does not love her becasue she looks like her mom( came from the mothers mouth not mine), he spends more time with the other kids, she feels left out, which is all crap as he takes extra special care of her knowing the mother talks badly about him to her all the time. She has said recently she doesn't want to come to her fathers house because of living conditions (we don't have a private room for her), our other small children keep her awake at night and her grades are suffering because she pent 3 school nights with us. It's always the fathers fault.

This in addition to the harassing phone calls and emails is too much. It's really rather ridiculous.

At what point does it become harassment? At what point will she have to get a job and support her own children? At what point would a judge look at what she has already been given, the max per our state at $2500 a month support plus the $280,000 and tell her to get a job? Does this ever happen or do they just order the fahter to keep paying more?
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May 5 4:10 PM (40 minutes and 17 seconds later)
         
Is support paid in joint custondy situations where the mother does not work? Or is suport reduced based on the amount of time the children spend with the father?

Also how often does she have to contact him or discuss him to his children in order for it to be considering harassing and detrimental to his relationships wqith them?
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May 5 4:18 PM (8 minutes and 28 seconds later)
         
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Hello,

Child support is paid regardless if it is joint or not. The more time he has with the children the less his support will be. The calculations are based on the amount of time he has the children with him. As for how many times..........she has the right to call him as often as she pleases as long as she is contacting him regarding the children. Harassment is diffrent......if she is calling about things that have nothing to do with the children, or is setting out to cause trouble that would be harassment. He can file criminal charges against her for harassment. But keep in mind if the calls are about the children this would not be deemed harassment. (Unless she starts about the children and then moves onto harassment comments).

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May 5 4:32 PM (13 minutes and 41 seconds later)
         
OY! What would you do if this was your ex wife? Honestly I am at a loss at this point. I don't understand how someone can treat a man like a dog and a bank and it's OK as long as it's about the kids. Is this common?
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