Q: My brother got custody of his kids June 2019. A year later he found out the grandmother had child support in her name.
Kids were victims of abuse & neglect. Mom arrested. Grandma had kids in March and The family nor court did not contact my brother and said they couldn’t find him. My brother has joint custody, been in contact and paid support for years from Florida. I found the article at end of April about the mom being arrested by chance when my brother couldn’t get ahold of anyone. He showed up to Kentucky in May at the 3rd hearing to surprise everyone. He got custody in June 2019. Finalized in August 2019 with only an order to stop his child support. He had been trying to get CS since Jan 2020, order final 6/2020. But just found out the grandma had got the CS in her name in March. So he has two cases but they supposedly dont have an order and CS said the grandmother could just do that since she had custody... however it was just emergency custody. Is this possible without an official order? He now has 2 cases and he owes back cs to the grandma but he was still paying & never got any notice.
A: He likely does not owe her any support. He should file a motion for child support in both cases.
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