Are you telling us that she was permitted to reduce her income in teh child support formula just becasue she decided to go back to school? Most judges, if you properly challenged this, woudl require her to give a good explanation that ended up with, "and then I'll be rich as anything in like a year from now and so reducing my support for this one year will be the best thing you can do for us", before they'd let her reduce her income...

More likely, they'd say, "good for you for going back to school to better yourself. But your child doesn't stop eating just becasue you go back to school, so find a way to fit child support into your plan and no problem".

Now, if she applied to reduce her support and you didn't properly challenge it, then you're maybe out of luck... and if you decided to go back to college just to retailiate, with no real good plan on how to pay for IT, let alone your support, and no real goals or expectations on exactly what it'll do for you, then you'll be out of luck if she decided to properly challenge the reduction in support. YOU might be required to continue to supprot at the same level as prveiously, fitting it into your college financing plans.

Most master's degrees are short, some are paid for by an employer (my husband got his with his employer paying for it), and you get promised a specific raise that makes it WELL worth it once the school is over... so it's very worth it.

IF they've got a PLAN... NOT if they're just going to avoid having to figure out what to do with themselves afterwards.

And the judges know it...

Tell me that she didn't just get her child support obligation reduced without you challenging it!