Q: Alabama child support. After divorce.
We divorced mutually, I just wanted to get out of the marriage quickly and didnt have the funds for an attorney at the time. We agreed everything would be mutual and if I didnt make him pay for child support he would pay for the divorce. The papers just state that hes responsible for them when he has them and vice versa. I'm remarried and we have 1 income, that of my husband. We have a child together and I have 2 from my previous and he has 2 from his previous that he pays child support for. I'm thinking of filing for child support because I cant support them financially on my end as I'm a stay at home mom (cant afford daycare). Will I have to re open our divorce or will I be able to file through DHR?
Dad: Saturday afternoon-Monday. Kids come home Tuesday morning(7:30) and with me (mom) until Saturday afternoons
A:
If child support is not ordered in a divorce, something must justify the lack of support. If you show that you were to have the children half the time and him half the time... and now you have them most of the time and he has them very little of the time, you can go back to Court and ask that the order be modified to make him pay.
In any event, you are looking at filing a new point to get this done. DHR can't decide he owes money when the Court's order does not say that.
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