Syracuse, NY asked in Family Law and Child Support for New York

Q: My child's mother is filing for modification of child support and a petition of violation of child support.

I stopped paying childcare costs after we made a mutually agreed upon written notarized agreement. I allowed her to leave the state in return that I did not have to start paying private daycare costs again. We live in NYS. Will this written agreement hold up on court?

She also is petitioning I pay back babysitter payments she made to her mother although she never informed me that she was doing so and never asked me to assist with those payments.

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Lawrence Allen Weinreich
Lawrence Allen Weinreich
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  • Garden City, NY
  • Licensed in New York

A: If the written agreement is in the proper form, it will hold up in court. If the agreement holds up, that is a defense to payment of babysitter costs from the time of the agreement. The fact that this was negotiated so that she could leave the state is helpful.

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