Today I want to blog about child support and alimony in Tennessee. Let me begin with one thing first.......every man should do his utmost to pay his child support....if due to an economic problem then as much as he can, period....it is your obligation to the child you fathered. But that being said many men are given more child support than they can afford plus as in my case I can afford the child support but had so much alimony attached, more then the child support, I now have trouble making it and
I am just getting my head above water. And with the economic downturn in the country, what can you do if you lose a job, then the support owed just piles up and courts rarely lower it when requested and even when shown good reason.
In fact most courts just act as if you can just start pulling money out of your.....
if you don't have a job or it does not pay enough. The first thing you are told if you have an economic downturn is to file for a change of circumstance to lower you child support. But in many cases it will not be granted and the amount you owe will just begin building up and you will go into debt quickly. If you are using lawyer then your costs will mount faster.
I found it interesting that the state of Tennessee calculates child support using a calculator and based on the non-custodial and custodial parents income. You would think this was an improvement because the judge has to follow it but wait......she can also as in my case add an alimony judgment so now you are paying more then you can afford and must come up with more income? hmmmmm, now if you had a wife who did not work and this was a decision you both approved of during your marriage then hey you used her services as a wife and mother and you now owe her and I see that point.
But in my case my ex-wife had a job that offered her all the advancement available to me. She had a college degree and was quite capable of moving ahead. I had gotten most of my education before I married her and had been a programmer for about 10 years. But along comes Judge Marie Williams.
First Judge Williams ignores her extra $10,000 eBay income, next she assigns child support 0f about $820 per month. Then she adds an alimony of $1000 per month, this is more then the child support......the ex is worth more then the child!. This is all before we have even begun the divorce. So now she is supported great but I have no money for a lawyer.
More coming in next post
I am just getting my head above water. And with the economic downturn in the country, what can you do if you lose a job, then the support owed just piles up and courts rarely lower it when requested and even when shown good reason.
In fact most courts just act as if you can just start pulling money out of your.....
if you don't have a job or it does not pay enough. The first thing you are told if you have an economic downturn is to file for a change of circumstance to lower you child support. But in many cases it will not be granted and the amount you owe will just begin building up and you will go into debt quickly. If you are using lawyer then your costs will mount faster.
I found it interesting that the state of Tennessee calculates child support using a calculator and based on the non-custodial and custodial parents income. You would think this was an improvement because the judge has to follow it but wait......she can also as in my case add an alimony judgment so now you are paying more then you can afford and must come up with more income? hmmmmm, now if you had a wife who did not work and this was a decision you both approved of during your marriage then hey you used her services as a wife and mother and you now owe her and I see that point.
But in my case my ex-wife had a job that offered her all the advancement available to me. She had a college degree and was quite capable of moving ahead. I had gotten most of my education before I married her and had been a programmer for about 10 years. But along comes Judge Marie Williams.
First Judge Williams ignores her extra $10,000 eBay income, next she assigns child support 0f about $820 per month. Then she adds an alimony of $1000 per month, this is more then the child support......the ex is worth more then the child!. This is all before we have even begun the divorce. So now she is supported great but I have no money for a lawyer.
More coming in next post
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