Changes in child support law?

[CloudySkies71]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TN

my ex stated yesterday that our state (Tennessee) has changed the way they calculate child support and that they now consider the income of spouses. is this true? i can`t imagine my attorney thinking this was not important enough to tell me, and a Google search is yielding zero results. is she misinformed, or are changes in effect/on the way?

 

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TN

my ex stated yesterday that our state (Tennessee) has changed the way they calculate child support and that they now consider the income of spouses. is this true? i can`t imagine my attorney thinking this was not important enough to tell me, and a Google search is yielding zero results. is she misinformed, or are changes in effect/on the way?

She is misinformed. There are rare instances where a court takes into consideration the income of a spouse, but that only happens if the obligee is either unemployed or underemployed, and even then, its only to help determine how much of a income to impute to the obligee.

Your ex probably heard of someone whose spouse's income was taken into consideration with a scenario like that, and made an assumption that it applied to everybody.

 

[Just Blue]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TN

my ex stated yesterday that our state (Tennessee) has changed the way they calculate child support and that they now consider the income of spouses. is this true? i can`t imagine my attorney thinking this was not important enough to tell me, and a Google search is yielding zero results. is she misinformed, or are changes in effect/on the way?

Leftout is confusing reality with wishful thinking.

 

[nextwife]

Presumably you are not voluntarily under or unemployed?

 

[Ohiogal]

Presumably you are not voluntarily under or unemployed?

Nope. But his ex is either left out or left behind. One of those two names who is a major moron.

 

[Proserpina]

Nope. But his ex is either left out or left behind. One of those two names who is a major moron.

The ex is registered too? Um...would it not be painfully apparent to the ex that OP is going to want to confirm here anything the ex claims?....y'know, it being a legal forum and all that?!

 

[Ohiogal]

The ex is registered too? Um...would it not be painfully apparent to the ex that OP is going to want to confirm here anything the ex claims?....y'know, it being a legal forum and all that?!

Left Out is even dumber than S4E. She wouldn't get the idea if it was literally drilled into her head.

 

[Just Blue]

The ex is registered too? Um...would it not be painfully apparent to the ex that OP is going to want to confirm here anything the ex claims?....y'know, it being a legal forum and all that?!

The woman is an idiot. And a narcissistic jerk...She sabotaged the relationship between OP and his child for the sole purpose of getting more parenting time for support reasons.

 

[Proserpina]

Left Out is even dumber than S4E. She wouldn't get the idea if it was literally drilled into her head.

I wasn't aware that was even possible....

 

[Ohiogal]

I wasn't aware that was even possible....

Read her threads. It is amazing but it is possible.

 

[Just Blue]

Read her threads. It is amazing but it is possible.

Didn't she delete her threads?

 

[proud_parent]

Didn't she delete her threads?

Yes, she did. She had at least nine of them over a period of three months. She deleted them in a fit of pique, apparently believing that Cloudy would never see them...until we pulled them up from Google's cache.