Child Support to Wrong Parent

My question involves child support in the State of: Tennessee

My father recently divorced my step-mother, and it was mostly amicable. However, his lawyer did not show up half the time and the final say was that he had to pay her child support even when he has the kids more often. They have joint custody of 2 children. She is currently making approx $22 an hour while he only makes around $13. He was the one who moved out of the house, he has since then had to give furniture back he could no longer afford after taking care of the kids and paying her child support out of each check. He's barely able to provide them with food, but he still gives her $80 each pay check.

My question is: Is there anything we can do to fix this?

It sounds like he who represents himself has a fool for a client. At least if these are court ordered days he has them. He needs to get a lawyer and file a timely appeal or reconsideration.

http://tn.gov/humanserv/is/isfaq.html#faq7

Child support is set in accord with the state guidelines. More information (and a sample petition to modify support) can be found here.

If for some reason that did not happen, dad should talk to his lawyer about why the court did not follow the formula and about having the issue reviewed and corrected.

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Quoting Mr. Knowitall

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Child support is set in accord with the state guidelines. More information (and a sample petition to modify support) can be found here.

If for some reason that did not happen, dad should talk to his lawyer about why the court did not follow the formula and about having the issue reviewed and corrected.

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Its pretty rare, but I am familiar with two cases where a judge actually made a flat out mistaking assigning child support to one parent, when it should have been assigned to the other. In both cases the judge intended to assign it to the correct party, a just made a mistake. So I really agree that he needs to get with his attorney and get help getting this corrected.