Q: If one of the two children age 15 decision is to come live with me and the other stays age 5 with the mother what to do?
My son said he wanted to live with me and his mother told him to pack his stuff and dropped him off at my house but I knew he wanted to so I come off the road and went to driving local and we were trying to work it out between each other but I had to miss a few payments of my child support that she text me a amount and said being he was with me she had to have no less or she would lose everything now she has decided to turn the original order over to child support enforcement of $1800 a month and my son has been with me for at least a month I just haven't had the money to get a lawyer yet what are my options and if I have one child and she has one child doesn't she have to pay me for the one child to I have tried to pay something every week
A:
File a petition for modification of the existing order.
Use of a lawyer is recommended.
John A. Smitten, Esquire
Carey Leisure and Neal
622 Bypass Drive, Suite 100
Clearwater, FL 33764
Phone: 727-799-3900/Fax: 727-490-4944
jsmitten@careyandleisure.com
www.careyandleisure.com
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