Quote From: familias I recently wrote to ask questions about a child and family investigator, step parent roles and other issues that were going on with my grandchild. Well the parents did go to mediation and it seemed as everything was worked out except child support. Papers have not been signed yet thank goodness. My grandchild's father works fulltime and also has a business but knowing that his child support was being reviewed he decided to put the business into his new wife's name. Is that legal? I don't understand how he can get away with that. Now they are saying that daycare expenses will be more for him even though he doesn't use daycare. Family members do the daycare. Can they use daycare expenses if they have not occured yet to determine child support? Makesme think that he is just not wanting to support his child since his current order is around $20.00 per month. Crazy amount. If anyone knows anything about the questions I just asked please let me know. Also thanks for the info on step parents.
-fam
I'm going to interject my two cents into this discussion (apologies to bact).
So the mediation appears to have done some good.
When it comes to child support, I for one am VERY cynical. $20/MONTH?? WTF??? What does he think this is, a GOLDFISH?? Unfortunately, the father's putting the business (and any other assets) in his wife's name is totally legal. From what I've heard, it's done all too frequently to "hide" assets from courts. I do not have first-hand experience, though, as Bozo (the civil moniker I use when referring to my ex-) has no assets to speak of. I would also imagine that the reverse is true, as well. Of course, it would serve him right if she took off with his $$!!
Don't have the first clue about daycare expenses. I imagine how that's counted varies considerably from state to state.
*maryann
