While going through some CS stuff this weekend we realized how the states (and of course BMs), sometimes scr#$%#$5 people who pay CS don't bother to keep track of it themselves and end up believing anything the crazy ex says or the courts. So, here is what I found out as I was doing the CS calculations.

CS is usually set as a monthly obligation. Let's say it's 100USD per month.

The CS orders that are sent for garnishment, at least from Texas have 4 amounts on how CS is to be collected.

if you get paid monthly, garnish 100USD per paycheck
if you get paid semi monthly (2 times per month), garnish 50USD per paycheck
if you get paid bi-weekly (every 2 weeks), garnish 46.15 per paycheck
if you get paid weekly, garnish 23.07 per paycheck

What happens? Well, January has 4 Fridays in which you would normally get paid. If you get paid bi-weekly, that would mean you would have paid 92.30 by the end of January. You would be starting the 5th week, which is already February having paid only 92.30, but the order states that you should be paying 100USD per month. So, those AHOLES in Texas start showing that 7.70USD as ARREARS...pretty soon, you haven't really paid what you owe. Pretty soon, you have some crazy BM calling you and telling you that you haven't paid enough. Pretty soon, many just pay up the difference...then June comes and by that time the pay weeks are 3, which means instead of paying 92.30 (just 46.15 two times), you pay 138.45 in CS that month! So in essence, you are really now caught up if not even ahead, but of course, by then neither the BM not CS office is going to come back and give you money back you have already paid in addition the the 92.43 you paid for a few months there.

So, the moral of the story? KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU PAY, what the order says and if you get paid either weekly or bi-weekly know that the odds are the CS will be showing you in arrears when you are NOT and the ex might be complaining about not being given enough and you might lose out.

Get this cleared up every single month or as often as you can with the idiots of CS. Of course, in this example the 100USD per month is not what most pay, but it makes things MUCH harder for those who pay 2-3K per month because of course, then the gap in difference is HUGE in the first few months of the year and then the same thing happens later when they take an amount 3 times from paychecks in one month.

Good luck...I know that our idiot BM is already screaming because she didn't get her full money, but we had to check it and make sure it was correct. You see, before DH just believed the idiot and always gave her extra even though I explained it to him...now he gets that every year his ex was scre@#$#$5ing him by him not taking the time to calculate what was really happening.