I feel like I'm doing this daily now, but I could use some advice...
Here's the deal. DH and I have skids every two weeks and then half the summer. This year we had the second half of the summer. My BS 7 started peewee football at the beginning of August. They had an opening for cheerleading as well and my SD 12 said she wanted to do it. The registration was 150.00 and then another $100 for the uniform. The season runs into the school year when we go back to 50/50 every two weeks custody. So before we signed her up and paid the money we asked BM if she was willing to take her to practices from 6:30 to 8:00 M,W,F. Her exact words were "of course". So we paid the money and she started on the squad. Well, BM picked them up to go back onto regular visitation on Friday afternoon. SD missed practice Friday night and has also missed Monday now. If she misses one more in a row she will be kicked off the squad and we will not be able to get any of our money back. Of course, I'm livid. We've sunk $250.00 into this (we also pay $700/month in child support) even though we have 50% custody. I want to ask BM for the money back since it's very obvious that SD is not going to make practice again. Do I have a right to do this? Also, do you think it's over-reaccting that I never want to pay for anything extracurricular for skids anymore? $250.00 is A LOT of money, especially for a military family like us. BM has zero respect for anything. I'm so pissed I want to drive to her house right now and ring her idiotic neck for literally making me waste hundreds of dollars.
What would you do?
There's probably nothing you
There's probably nothing you can do now but learn from it. $700 is a lot of cs esp since you have shared custody! If sd or bm ask you in the future to help with extra-curriculars then bring up this instance. Either say no or pay half directly to the lesson/sport/activity. Sorry about that. Maybe have dh call her and tell her if she misses then she'll get kicked off. Does sd know she'll be kicked off? Poor kid.
I would def say don't do
I would def say don't do anything like this again unless you have it in writing. That sucks. I'm sorry. That's not fair to SD either. I wouldn't be thrilled if I were her either.