My question involves child support in the State of: California,



Hello

My question is in regard how will my ex's current divorce from his "new spouse" affect the child support order he has standing with me? (1 child with me, 1 with his current spouse who he is separated from). I see on the calculator there is a deduction for other child support paid and when I run it, it does lower the support but I was also told that there is (or was) a first child rule in CA and that meant my support could not be lowered. I really need clarification so I know just what to do and how to start budgeting for a reduced child support income (Calculator reduced it to over half, which is frustrating as actually it reduced it to only 1/3 of what I should have been getting as I accepted a lower than guideline by $400+ amount and have never received guideline as it was. Sigh).

Thanks kindly in advance.