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Question: The father resides in Georgia, the child support case is in Florida. The child lives with the grandmother, the father pays $200 a month to grandmother.
The mother of the child decides she wants to collect child support even though the child does not reside with her and she does not have legal custody of the child. She files for support with no proof of residence where the child lives. The court orders the father to pay $400 a month to the mother when the child does not live with the mother.
How can this happen? How do we fix it?
Question: My wife, we’re still together, had an affair with her ex-boyfriend who is the father of my stepdaughter. I have pictures and tapes from a private investigator to prove everything.
I see her ex-boyfriend a few times a month when he comes to pick up his daughter, I have to talk to him when he calls to talk to his daughter or my wife, etc. So it’s making it very hard to move forward. We live in Georgia, but I work in Florida and come home every other weekend to see my wife and daughter.
My question is considering the affair and the presence of her ex-boyfriend in our lives, will I get custody of our child if I file for divorce? I am a very good father, have strong family values, and have a large loving family. I don't want my wife to have custody of our child because of her values.
Understanding the Collaborative Approach By: Kim Douglas Sherman, Esq.
I am a dad, and I am an attorney practicing family law in Florida for over thirty years. In those years I have seen some colossal battles over children. Most of the time, when emotions are running high, one of the parents decides that the best way to inflict pain on their soon-to-be ex-spouse is through the children. That decision is one of the WORST that a divorcing parent can make. This article contains some effective strategies, and couple of reasons to avoid the urge to use the kids as a weapon.
Sure, you have heard of “what goes around comes around.” I tell my clients that it is truer than you can imagine. It is not just that the mother will have a chance at some time later to take her shot back—but in the many years following the divorce, while the children grow into adulthood, then parenthood– their mother will have many chances to get even. Children want to love their parents and respect them. It seems that as the children grow, they figure out what really motivates their parents’ actions, and then they take the hostility personally.
