Q: Can I request child support to be re-calculated and back dated?
Ex wife didn't inform the court of her new job almost 2 years ago and her hourly rate came up significantly and we pretty much made the same amount. So continued to collect child support based on her lower wage amount. Can I ask it to be recalculated and back dated to when she got her new job? She also is not making our daughter visit me if she doesn't want to come to my house and it's in the divorce decree that I have visitation. We are in Michigan.
A: It would depend on how much the support calculation actually changes. Parenting time is a separate issue from child support; you do not get "credit" for your ex wife not allowing you visitation.
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