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  1. #1
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    Default Custodial parent moving out of continental U.S.

    I was told we could have child support completely stopped if the custodial parent moves out of the state-which is MI. She is moving to Alaska which is 5x's more expensive and has hinted that she will have to raise child support. She is the one moving. We do not want to let the youngest go, already have the oldest living with us who she kicked out, and will let the middle child go since she has made it very clear she will not stay in MI no matter what if her mom moves. Is that correct? If so, it may be our ace in the hole. She is not willing to compromise or anything, it's her way or else. She is all about money, so as I stated, this may be our ace in the hole to atleast start some kind of compromise with her.

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    Default Child Support

    Child support will continue even if the custodial parent moves to another state (or country). It should continue to be determined by Michigan's support formula.

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    Default custodial parent moving out of continental U.S.

    Thank you for your reply. We were hoping against hope it would be true so we would have a bargaining chip. We have decided to let her and the daughter go for sure. We haven't been able to decide if the best thing for the youngest boy would be to take him away from his mother. That's our big dilema now. She's moving for a higher paying job and to get married to a man she has only dated a month at the most-who is unemployed. The higher paying job will dramaticly be offset by the cost of living in Alaska and will actually end up being a lower paying job. But without the cost of living brought into it, she will be making double what my husband and I both make-hopefully the courts will look at that in our favor. Everyone in her family, as well as our families want the children to stay, atleast the youngest-who does not really want to leave, but will miss his mom. The daughter has made it painfully clear she will not stay. The youngest thought he had no choice but to live with mom or his maternal grandparents-he didn't know he would live with us until we talked to him. He was quite excited about that thought. But he's 8, he does not quite understand this whole moving situation and the problems it will cause. What is your advice? We are trying to keep our feelings out of this all together and do what is best for the kids, but are finding that extremely hard to do. Just looking for some kind of advice on how to handle this before it goes into a nasty court situation with lawyers.

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    The cost of living in Alaska will have no affect on the child support. Alaska will still use the MI formula when calculation support. (That way a parent can't move solely for the purpose of more favorable laws.) If MI uses both parents income when figuring support, dad's CS should actually go DOWN if she is making more money, even though the moey doesn't go as far in Alaska.

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