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> I've been hearing some rather upseting news lately that if a
> man remarries that his new wife's salary would be added to adjust
> for a increase in the mans child support. is this true?
Not necessarily. Most states now follow fairly strict "guidelines"
that forbid the use of the spouse's income. Some even eliminage
overtime and second Jobs (Colorado). However, some judges will sneak
it in on you, fuguring that you have other means to pay our bills.
Bottom line is check with your lawyer, or check out the guidelines
in the law books a your local libraray.
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| In Mass., the law doesn't say they can use the new spouses to determine
the child support. That should mean forget it and don't worry about
it. Unfortunately when you are asked to fill out financial forms for
court, if you haven't got your head on straight and you are honest, you
put down both incomes......wrong thing to do......for purposes of
court, show only your income. They have no right to ask or consider
your spouses in Mass. so never put it down or say whether or not she
works, its not even an issue. What most judges do in this state is
that even if you are living with another person, they automatically
think that means that you can afford to go to the absolute max plus
on child support, so they will heap you with bills, unpaid medical,
max child support and anything else they can think of, because they
figure you have help paying the rent. But, in mass. they will also
use overtime, inheritence received after the divorce is final, and
anything else they can get hold of if your ex does't work much, just
so they can keep her off welfare. They have the attitude that you
own her forever.
So, the bottom line is never bring up that you are married, and never
never bring up for any reason that you live with anyone or that they
work or how much they make. The system is extremely dishonest towards
men, don't try to work in it with absolute boyscout honesty, or you
will never have a life again.
Bottom line, even if they can't use the new wife's or live in's income
they will, and if you lose your job, they will continue to go after
you for the same child support because they figure you can get it from
your wife. That does not work if the situation is reversed and a NCP
mother quits work and lives off hubby, they will not make her pay,
saying she has no income:-)
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| They are not supposed to use the new wife's income in figuring the
amount, but it definitely comes into play. We have been in and out of
court with my husbands exwife and they ALWAYS mention my income and
what our combined income is. The lawyer figures if she gets the info
out there, the judge will use it in his decisions, and he does.
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| When we went to court (in NH) the paperwork specifically said, income
of plaintiff, income of defendant. If they are going to start using
your spouses income, then your spouse should be asking for separate
visitations because, after all, they never married your ex! I'd like to
see his ex come after my income. She'd have another thing to think
about. Just because we have two incomes, doesn't mean we are living
high off the hog. There are two people living off two incomes, this is
equal to one person living off of one income. However, the NCP paying
the support is then giving extra money to suppliment the difference in
the ex's income verses his income.
I've noticed that Mass is quite different than NH. For some reason>
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