Suing for child support despite prior agreement
hello i just want to ask if the mother of my step daughter can sue as for child support if its already been aggreed in legal forms and done in the court that she will not ask for child support because the aggreement is about her ability to earn more money and not how much she make right now? do u think she can break the aggreement coz she wasn't making more money now than before because she can't work in other hospitals because of her record probably and we suspected her that she just want it for herself because we've been supporting her daughter for most of all her expenses in our house including most of her schooling , medical expenses and dentist .Their legal aggreement is they have to split the payments of all their daughters medical bills which we always ended up paying for all it.which is another thing that she didn't follow in their aggreement. The point of the aggreement is we should support her daughter when she's on our house on a regular visitation and she will support her when she's on her house. I dont think its fair for us to be ask for child support which we know will ended up paying her moms expenses .do you think she has the power to renewed everything and sue as? [/b]
Assessment of Child Support
Child support is normally assessed by formula based upon the parties' respective incomes. While it is true that in a sense the payment of child support benefits the parent who lives with the child, the fact is that it is inevitable that such benefit will occur - the parent lives with the child, after all. Your husband can show the child support agreement to a local lawyer to see if it is enforceable, but if not then yes, the mother can petition to modify support.