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Child support increase
Issaquah, WA
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Posted over 2 years ago in Child Support
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My ex-husband and I have been divorced for 3 1/2yrs, at the time of the divorce our children were 3 & 5yrs. They had not enetered in school (of course at that age) yet, when the child support was determined. The kids are 8 1/2 & 7yrs old. They of course have back to school clothes that are needed, lunch at school to pay for and they also want to get into after school activities, which I cannot afford alone. I have asked their dad to perhaps pay for one activity and I pay for the other, he said no. My current husband and I have our kids full time with him seeing them every 2 months, which he wanted. I have never gone back to get a increase, although he makes $5-$6 more an hour than he did when everything was final 3 1/2 yrs ago. What are my rights with this matter OR do I leave well enough alone?
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Dave Hawkins
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Posted about 1 year ago.
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If your incomes have increased and it has been more than two years since the last support order was entered, you have a right to modify the child support order per statute. You initiate the process by filing a Petition to modify support and by providing your tax returns for the past three years and you pay check stubs for the past six months. File the Petition and serve him pursuant to statute -- he is then obliged to respond in 20 days with his financial information. In King county, a support modification trial will be held on the family law motions calendar, but it is still a trial and you need to comply wiht all of the trial procedures if he does not agree to the modification.
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