How to Prove the Amount of Your Past Child Support Payments

When I married my husband he was writing checks to his ex for support. (Fortunately he was smart enough to keep copies.) Because his ex was obsessed with money, I insisted we start using CSE to track payments and protect ourselves. That was about three years after their divorce. Soooo glad we did.

Sure enough, as soon as the paperwork went through, the ex-wife filed a claim for back support, claiming he had made no payments. We had to dig up every single check copy and submit them to CSE. I am very certain she would have filed that same paperwork when the youngest's support ended (12 years later), if we hadn't gotten CSE involved. And that would have been a paperwork nightmare.