I just found this board and I'm so glad to see something like this exists. I wonder if any one has any advice about my particular problem. I have been divorced for 7 years now and I am in a situation where My Ex and I have taken care of the financial requirements of our son outside the courts. My ex pays me the child support, day care and any other needs for our son directly to me and not through the state (a decision I have come to regret).
The situation is that I live 5 minutes away from my son’s dad and I am in one school district and my son’s father is in another. My school district is in a lot of trouble with finances and had cut allot of programs out as well as paying the teachers poorly. In some cases they have one teacher teaching two classrooms at the same time.... I am in agreement with my son's father that perhaps our son should go to school by his dads house however , My son does not want to live with his father....... I am concerned to sign my son up for this school because I feel his father will use the fact that my son is showing residence with his father to sign up to the school by his fathers house as a reason to not pay child support. He has already been refusing to pay my son's day camp for sorted and untrustworthy reasons even though the Decree states he must pay half. There is a place in the divorce Decree that states an Emancipation event (A reason why his father would not be required to pay child support). Number 4 on the list says “the child having a Residence away from the residence of the WIFE.
I am concerned that even though my son would still be living with me, his father would, since on paper at the school it says otherwise, he no longer has to pay child support.....