My question involves child support in the State of: NJ
I pay child support for my daughter under two separate orders - one Order was established as a weekly obligation for regular support and one Order was established as a monthly obligation for day care. The weekly obligation has been in effect for several years, and the monthly obligation was newly ordered for before and after school care costs this year. I have two questions:
1) The NJ shared parenting support guidelines appear to allow for a credit to the PAR for child care cost paid. My regular support order was established with no such credit afforded me, since the child care order did not exist at the time of last regular support modification. Should the new, separate obligation for day care be included as a credit to my regular support at this point? The line item for the credit I'm questioning is line 22 on the worksheet linked below. I do receive the credit on line 23 for health care premium paid, because that was established in my original order for regular support.
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/csguide/ix-d.pdf
2) When the Probation department implemented the new order for the day care obligation, they did so incorrectly and entered the monthly amount as a weekly obligation, while completely deleting the weekly obligation. After a number of calls to the Child Support payment center, I finally managed to have them update all of the correct support dollar amounts in their system, however in the course of doing so, they have now created a single monthly obligation. My question is, is the Probation dept./allowed to update my regular support obligation from weekly to monthly, without an Order from the Court? The $ amount is the same in the end, but I now owe money sooner each month than I had as established by the Court Order.

