Originally Posted by jplinville

From the email I received yesterday afternoon, she dropped the custody fight, but refuses to agree to any amount of child support, claiming that since she doesn't have the kids except for a few weeks a year, that she shouldn't have to pay. Her argument makes no sense, since I paid a metric crap ton over the 8.5-9 years she had them. She also refuses to agree to the summertime schedule which I've offered, giving her the last week of June and all of July...for my son only. My 17 year old daughter wants nothing to do with her mother due to the events that precipitated action from Children's Services and the Police Department. She also is employed here, and doesn't want to harm that. Under normal circumstances, she would get every other week through the summer. I'm offering 5 weeks with the 5th of July, which is my holiday, in exchange for this next week and all of August. August is the start of football practice at the high school, and he's going to play again this year. The practices are mandatory, and missing them could cause him to be behind like last year, and he rides the oak for the first 4 games.

Basically, we're back to where we were about 1.5 months ago...my having custody, her having limited visitation, and her refusing to utilize the visitation.

I'm not dropping the support part of the case. She has two jobs now that pay quite well, and she's bringing in about $60k a year as a nurse. I'm on a limited income, with slim chances of ever getting back to half of what it used to be.

My son still wants to spend those weeks there so he can see old friends. He's open to spending that time with my mother instead, so he can go on with his plans.





I'll not comment on P.C.'s comment out of respect for the forum...what I have to say isn't very kind.