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    Default Unpaid Medical Bills

    I am in Florida. My husband just filed Contempt of Court charges on his ex wife for medical bills that we have paid for the past few years in the amount of $1,040. The divorce degree states "The Husband shall maintain health insurance for the use and benefit of the minor child and the Husband and Wife shall equally share any medical expenses for the minor child which are not covered by the husband's health insurance.

    So, she states that she will not pay the bills because she did not take the son to the appoitments and she was not informed of them or the bills. Well, my husband did call her, email her and mail her letters. Of course we have no proof of this since our computer crashed. This is what she is counting on.

    She will lie in court and say she knew nothing about these bills or dr's appt's even though his 16 year old son even told her about the dr appts and she was too busy to take him and we also emailed and mailed her the information.

    Question: Do we have to prove we sent her the information and doesn't she have to pay no matter who took the child to the appoitment

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    As I told you in my PM, this is not my area of expertise. However, I can't imagine that the court is going to require that she take your word for the fact that the appointments existed. I suggest you get verification of the visits and duplicate copies of the bills from the doctor's office because it's quite likely you will need them. They may charge you a small fee for this but it's not an uncommon request; they will understand.

    The exact terms of the court order determine when she is required to pay and when she is not; I will not attempt to interpret a document I have not read. Your attorney should be able to identify which bills she is and is not required to pay for you.

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    Default Re: Unpaid Medical Bills

    Quote Quoting FLMOM71
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    I am in Florida. My husband just filed Contempt of Court charges on his ex wife for medical bills that we have paid for the past few years in the amount of $1,040. The divorce degree states "The Husband shall maintain health insurance for the use and benefit of the minor child and the Husband and Wife shall equally share any medical expenses for the minor child which are not covered by the husband's health insurance.

    So, she states that she will not pay the bills because she did not take the son to the appoitments and she was not informed of them or the bills. Well, my husband did call her, email her and mail her letters. Of course we have no proof of this since our computer crashed. This is what she is counting on.

    She will lie in court and say she knew nothing about these bills or dr's appt's even though his 16 year old son even told her about the dr appts and she was too busy to take him and we also emailed and mailed her the information.

    Question: Do we have to prove we sent her the information and doesn't she have to pay no matter who took the child to the appoitment
    Yes, she would have to pay no matter who took him to the Dr., unless the court order states otherwise. However, as the previous poster said, you really should get a conult just to make sure.

    Do you know of anyone who is good with computers? I'm not, but I know that it's possible to pull the hard drive from one computer and put it into another to allow you access to what is on the hard drive. That could be a way of proving the emails, etc.

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    Thank you for your response, I can prove that she knew about the appoitments because she went to a few of them with my husband and their child. So, if she showed up apparently she was informed about them. Right?

    The ex wife's defense is that she did not take their son to the appt's therefore is not going to pay. I know a bit juvenile. We are only talking about $1,000 it is going to cost more to fight it in court but she said she will not pay.

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