Q: Are my ex husband and I required to exchange financial info if we both agreed for neither party to pay child support
We live in AZ we got a basic simple divorce we filed on our own going on 8 years ago. Our decree states "Financial information exchanges: In cases in which child support or spousal maintenance are ordered, then until such time as those would end under the orders in this consent decree, the parties shall exchange financial information (tax returns, spousal affidavits, earning statements and/or other related financial statements) every 24 months." We agreed on no child support or spousal maintenance 8 years ago. Neither of us have ever exchanged financial info in the past 8 years. Per our decree we are both entitled to ask one another for this information per the verbiage in our basic divorce decree correct? He refuses to exchange this info with me. I have a right to legally ask him to share his 2017 W2 with me correct? And he has to comply?
A: The order is clear that the parties must ("shall") exchange financial information every 24 months. If your ex does not. you can file a Petition to Enforce the Consent Decree and request the Court sanction him for his failure to comply and force him to produce the records. Inform your ex that if he does not produce the information by a certain date (give him just another week or so), you will be going to the Court to resolve his Contempt.
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