This is a great victory in FL for dads who are having to "pay" for lazy BM's! Way to go FL!

I think that they are starting to see the abuse of CP who are not moving forward with their own lives and futures and using the kids to avoid doing such.

I bet there will be quite a few bitter BM's ???

Oh! how wonderful! FDH and I have a court date in the next few months for our 2nd hearing with BM...she has yet to produce information regarding her pay, and is now choosing not to work, as she is in school (so FDH is paying for this)...and she refuses to allow us visitation, even though we have a 'right of first refusal' in place, and has her parents (who she lives with) watch him whenever she can't (frequently)...

I will certainly give you an update when we go to our next hearing, and I will mention this to our lawyer and FDH!

We live in MN,, and I think ALL these states have a long ways to go to figure out these BMs,,my kids recieve SS benifits and I need to keep
reciepts for the whole year,, I don't understand how these women get
away with not showing where the money's all going,

We are about to have the new laws used with DH's child support as well as imputing BM income since she is purposely underemployed (claims to make only $126 per month).
The BM took DH back to court September 2010 demanding an increase in child support (DH already pays $1grand a month for 1 child). The new FL laws started just days after the court hearing. The case was still open as of January 2011 due to nobody could decide what the correct calculations were (her attorney kept claiming something totally different than what 3 people came up with). As of January 13th they filed the new court orders that included the wrong amount (her attorney used an incorrect amount-almost $1grand more than what he really makes- for his income which then raised his child support another $160 a month). They also did not use the new child support laws when calculating.
We are now in the process of trying to have DH's income amount corrected, but also requesting to use the new laws for the visitation as well as imputing BM more money (she has a degree she was hiding and is choosing to only make the $126 a month so that DH is forced to pay more). BM loves to play the "poor card" in court, yet her husband makes over $10grand a month. That is how she is affording to barely work. Unfortunately his income doesn't count so she ends up looking poor.

DH has long distance visitation and the BM has done everything she can to try to prevent him from exercising that. Now that the new laws state that if he gets SD 73 overnights or more the CS will go down, she has been trying even harder to prevent his visitation. She is just all about money and control.

DH has a conference call with his attorney on the 2nd to discuss the child support issues. We are hoping that we will not need a whole new court hearing to fix the errors and to calculate by the new laws. I will give you an update as soon as we find out whats going on. I really hope we can go ahead and use the new laws. We really need the decrease in CS. We have 3 other children to care for and I don't think that the BM needs over $1grand a month (plus arrears and attorney fees) for one child. I know I don't spend $1grand a month for each of my children!