Asked in Child Custody and Child Support for Mississippi

Q: If my husband's son's mother allows the child to live with his father does he have to pay her money every week?

The child's mother has refused the father visitation rights many many times over the last 15 years and has given her son to his father and now is threatening to take the son if the father does not pay her $50 a week to keep their son

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Arthur Calderon
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A: No. With the way that child support works, it follows the child wherever the child lives. Your husband's best bet is going to be to get with an attorney to modify custody, as well as child support, siting the fact that the child now lives with his father and that the mother is threatening to take the son away if the father does not pay her money.

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