My question involves child support in the State of: Indiana.
I live in Indiana, don't have an attorney Ex lives in Arkansas, has just retained an attorney. I received notice from Title IV-D Court that said "attorney appeared and filed Verified petition to emancipate Minor child and to Modify Child Support and Petition to Participate Telephonically, with proposed notices of hearing. No certificates of service were appended to either pleading. Council is requested to provide a certificate of service, showing service of Motion and Petition on other parties to the case. When same is rcvd, hearing will be set."
I accessed my case online and it states "Court receives two certificates of service from Atty.XXX, apparently for petitions filed 11/29/12. Petition to modify support set for hearing 2/18/13, 10:30 AM. Father may participate by telephone unless another party objects. Notice of hearing to be served on Mother".
I definitely object to ex participating telephonically. He has a body attachment warrant ($1250) for non payment of support and not reimbursing me for Guardian ad Litem fees. He is also $18,000+ in arrears and has only recently begun making sporadic $150 payments Support is 277/wk + 23/wk for arrears). In the past 2 years he has bounced from Arkansas to Indiana to North Dakota to Texas and back to Arkansas, obtaining jobs and quiting just as soon as income withholding orders are filed. He is also about to receive $30,000 from an inheritance + 1/2 interest in a $40,000 house. He is trying to give up his rights to the house and deed the whole thing to his sister - and the estate attorney is pushing the sister to accept the offer.
How do I go about objecting to ex participating telephonically? Do I have to wait until the day of the hearing and object then, in person? Or do I need to file something prior to then? I don't think the court will ignore my objection because the ex filed a bunch of support modification/abatement petitions/telephonic requests last year and ignored rule to show cause hearings/non payment of support, and service notifications filed by prosecutor. The prosecutor refused to allow the ex to participate telephonically then, and dismissed all pending motions filed by ex.
I am working through the IV-D program in trying to intercept the inheritance but since it's 2 states working on it, it's slow and I'm afraid he will get his inheritance and have it spent before anything can be done. I talked to an attorney in Arkansas about retaining him to file against the estate but I don't have the money to do that.
Any suggestions?

