With a final court date coming up later in the year after my partner having interim orders for 100% for a year and then majority care 6 months and now 50/50 care the past 6 weeks, he is now confident that it's in the best interests of the child for final orders of 50/50 care with the mother. The mother has worked on the issues that led to the judge making the interim orders so this is a good outcome.
His lawyer has drafted orders but has noted that they have included child support matters, that my partner thought may be appropriate in the orders, as a notation as it can't be made an order of this court and that it's not enforceable. Lawyer has also noted that it may back fire on him if he is required to pay child support to the mother - which he has recently been assessed to pay due to the mother having lodged a very low estimated income with Child Support.
The matters are 50% of costs for medical/dental after private health insurance claims (with the father continuing to cover the cost of having the child on his private health insurance policy) and 50% of all education costs ie books, uniforms, fees, camps etc.
In the case of care of the child being 50/50, and one parent being assessed as having to pay child support to the other, is it the parent receiving child support that is responsible for medical/dental and education costs? We think this is what the lawyer is suggesting in their letter. They also say that if he pays for any of these costs, he may not be able to offset it against child support payments paid to her.
@sammy01 , I was doing a search to see if I could find if anyone had posted about this before and you had a post about your experience with your ex.
He is just trying to get his head around this as his lawyer is not available to discuss the matter until next week.
His lawyer has drafted orders but has noted that they have included child support matters, that my partner thought may be appropriate in the orders, as a notation as it can't be made an order of this court and that it's not enforceable. Lawyer has also noted that it may back fire on him if he is required to pay child support to the mother - which he has recently been assessed to pay due to the mother having lodged a very low estimated income with Child Support.
The matters are 50% of costs for medical/dental after private health insurance claims (with the father continuing to cover the cost of having the child on his private health insurance policy) and 50% of all education costs ie books, uniforms, fees, camps etc.
In the case of care of the child being 50/50, and one parent being assessed as having to pay child support to the other, is it the parent receiving child support that is responsible for medical/dental and education costs? We think this is what the lawyer is suggesting in their letter. They also say that if he pays for any of these costs, he may not be able to offset it against child support payments paid to her.
@sammy01 , I was doing a search to see if I could find if anyone had posted about this before and you had a post about your experience with your ex.
He is just trying to get his head around this as his lawyer is not available to discuss the matter until next week.
