Ok so I already have the advice of a wonderful friend but I am wondering if there is BTDT other advice.
My ex apparently got fired the other day and he hadn't paid his child support for the month yet, I asked if I was going to get it today and he replied that didn't I get he lost his job? I understand he would he lost his job but he would still have his pay check from before since he is supposed to pay on the first. I then found out he is splitting from his current girlfriend and moving out of their joint home and he will need to be paying child support for his other child. What do I do? He is telling me he won't be able to pay and no idea when he will be able to pay. He was making more money at this previous job and didn't up the child support because he didn't have to until tax time so when I get his tax papers and he is to pay more according to his income, does he have to pay that amount?
Normally I wouldn't care about the differing amounts but he won't pay for extras for the kids, not grad, braces, trips both of our children need braces, I have already paid for the ones but now the next needs them as well. I don't really know what to do, I don't want to make his life more difficult but I am on mat leave right now, I can go a couple months with out this money but I want a guarantee I will get my back pay, and what happens with the amounts? does it make a difference that there is another child he will have to pay for? How does that work? I feel bad for my kids because he seems to think that since they are teens they don't need him anymore and his job is done.
