Bob Whiteside wrote:


"Lvnsurpriseaz" u37991@uwe wrote in message news:7934879433388@uwe...

My sons father pays child support and I have 100% physical custody.
Now, the
father refuses to pay for events that my son wants to participate in
during
his visitation time. The father claims that is what his child support
goes
towards. I tried explaining to the father that the child support is
to help
support him during my 95% time share and that during his 5% time he is
to pay
for expenses. Isn't that true????? or am I missing something here?


CS awards are based on the CP having the children 100% of the time and
do not take into consideration expenses that "travel with the
children". The new parenting plans being adopted by some of the states
allow for a reduction of CS once a threshold of visitation is reached.
The most common threshold is 30+% visitation time. What that means is
NCP's do not get a break on CS paid until they care for the child at
least 30% of the time. And then the CS reduction is phased in so that
even at 50% visitation the NCP can still be forced to pay something.

****, he can be forced to pay something at 80% "visitation" too! It's
amazing what those CS gnomes can do with numbers!

I have my son the same number of hours as his mother does, and I was
told I could get a 10% "discount" on CS obligation! How does this
happen? Because my state has a 30% "threshold", and any time our son is
not with ME counts as time he is with HER -- ie time in school, etc. I
could have him in my care MORE HOURS THAN SHE DOES and still be forced
to pay close to 90% of the standard obligation!

When I asked my lawyer and hers if this sounded "fair" to them, they
both laughed in my face and said, "Nope, but that's how it is! Har har
har!!!"

- Ron ^*^