NCP income

SimpleLife
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:49:51 +0000

@FCCDAD,
Are you referring to this quote?:



BUT, I do still feel compelled to add (to complete strangers!) that I did not ask for this arrangement – lest anybody jump to the conclusion that this was a matter of systematically “alienating” a dad from his children, or any other “game.” This order was issued by the judge years into a long conflict, without my request and without my input.



I said it because it’s true. Think about it. If I didn’t ask the court to decide those matters … hmmm … how did it get in the courts? I do not owe you, a complete stranger, any further explanation than what I feel comfortable revealing.

In my state, in my county, in my own personal court documents, and in all discussions in my own family’s personal matters, what I referred to here as “custody” is what the people involved in my own family’s case referred to as “custody.” And what I referred to as “access” is what the people involved in my own family’s case referred to as “access.” I used the terms that were “officially” used for years by people involved in my own family’s circumstances. And they are the same terms that are in all of my official documents. That is why I chose those words.

Texas does not/or didn’t use to use CP income to determine child support. I believe the OP was talking about Texas, but I could be remembering wrong.

If you settle out of court, in a mediated settlement, child support may be technically “infinitely renewable,” (in fact, I was under the informed impression that it was), but it is not practically infinitely renewable. If you agree to a particular number in a mediated settlement, you will be hard-pressed to change that number. That’s the way it works in the location where my case was settled.

One of the downsides of revealing personal information on CC, particularly if what you reveal is not commonly experienced, is that strangers are sometimes tempted to jump in do a little naysaying as though you don’t know what you’re talking about or as though you didn’t say it right. But, oh well. I hope the information I provided is helpful to somebody at sometime as they navigate their way through NCP waivers for their kids.