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Pressuring? At what point did anything I say here mention that I was pressuring or even that I had? Is one parent not able to ask the other parent to assist with financial obligations of the child? Isn't that what child support is for? I don't mean to say that child support is for cell phone use, I mean to say that child support is used to help both parents pay for expenses, and that's all I was doing was asking the other parent to assist in paying. Not paying by court order, but simply asking to assist in OUR childs expenses.

Nor did I mention how often I had asked for assistance, for all this posts concern I could have just asked for the 2nd time in the last 6 or 7 years.
No, child support is to reimburse the parent with primary custody for the expenses that parent already paid for the child. It is NOT intended to help the non-custodial parent with expenses they voluntarily chose to incur. Sure, you could ask mom to help with the cell phone, but when she said no the first time (and you said that you asked her more than once) then you should have accepted that no.

Child support is to help cover housing, food, sundries and all of the other things that go into supporting a child. Again, in your case its you reimbursing mom.