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    Default How Can I Get My Support Payment Lowered?

    My question involves child support in the State of: Ohio

    I found out that my ex is making a substantial amount of money more than I do a month. Her house hold income is 50k and mine is around 12k. I pay about 1/3 of my income just to child support with back support. I've never asked for a reduction before, but I cannot afford to live on my own, and the financial strain is over bearing. I've contacted my case worker, but who knows when they will respond (if ever).

    With that said, I really do not trust the agency, how does that work? Is that a good enough reason to reduce my support?

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    I believe you can request from the agency a " modification review form", you would have to ask them, then if it is sent you will need to read it completely then fill it out and return.

    Here is the website, maybe you can search it for more information while you are waiting on a return call.

    http://jfs.ohio.gov/ocs/

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    By the way, her household income doesn't matter.

    Just HER income matters.

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    I don't agree. Her husband agreed to share all expenses and raise my child in my place. I don't know how only her income matters when they are both equally responsible for each other's finances, and especially when they split the bills.

    I know that is not an interpretation of the law, JMHO.

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    Doesnt matter what her husband agrees to he is a legal stranger in this. He can chose to not care for the child at all if he wants. He has no "legal" obligation to support this child.

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    Quote Quoting tabletopphoto
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    I don't agree. Her husband agreed to share all expenses and raise my child in my place. I don't know how only her income matters when they are both equally responsible for each other's finances, and especially when they split the bills.

    I know that is not an interpretation of the law, JMHO.
    Here's another way to look at the law:

    What if you were married, and your wife happened to have a large income. Would you want your CS obligation to greatly INCREASE because of your wife's income?

    The law is that the only people who are legally responsible for a child's financial support are that child's parents, therefore only the parents' incomes are relevent.

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    Default Re: How Can I Get My Payment Lowered?

    If I married a woman who makes more than I, it isn't her responsibility to pay for my child. No that isn't fair. It is also unfair for the payer of support to pay extra child support when the custodial parent has had a life style increase because of marriage or career change which are circumstances beyond the control of the payer of child support. On the same note, how is it fair to the non custodial parent to be forced to contribute to the expenses of the life style the custodial parent decides to live when the non-custodial has no say-so in the matter?

    Aren't marriages considered 50/50? How does the law view marriage? If I were were collecting child support and married someone who makes more than I do, then i would have the support lowered because I don't need as much anymore.

    Since child support is meant to cover the means of every day expenses involved in raising a child, by proxy the step parent is supporting the child through utility bills and groceries. My burden would be lessened because of the second income. The step parent of the child may not be obligated, but shares the same basic necessities and knew the situation going into the marriage. The step parent and the child share the same shower, same toilet, same phone number, same 4 walls, same dinner plate, same heating and air conditioning unit, same drinking water, ect ect, and the step parent is paying for atleast half of the living expenses at home. How does that not count?

    I'm not writing this to debate you, just trying to make sense of a slanted system and laws that seem to not make any sense to me.

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