If I get married again , can they

[96SCTA]

What is the name of your state? NY

If i get remairied can the court go after my new wife's income for more child support? Will she be liable to pay any of my back owed support or maintance.
Thanks for the help.

 

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state? NY

If i get remairied can the court go after my new wife's income for more child support? Will she be liable to pay any of my back owed support or maintance.
Thanks for the help.

In a nutshell. NO.

However, if you are unemployed or underemployed they may take your wife's income into consideration, not for the calculation of child support but to determine how much income to "impute" to you.

In addition, if you owe serious arrearages they might take you wife's income into consideration in deciding how much of your income to take for the arrearages.

In other words, if your wife is easily able to support your combined household, then they might make you pay a higher percentage of your income towards your combined child support and arrearages than they would normally require.

This isn't a very common scenario though and generally wouldn't come up unless the court thought you were playing games.

 

[96SCTA]

Thank you for the reply. I plan on getting married soon and My X keeps taking me back to court every other day for anything she can think of. Every time we go back she gets more from me. I fired my atrny yesterday because of the poor job he has done. As of now i am not in back child support but my job cut my overtime and i will be in rears shortly. I get to live on 60 dollars a week. Thats all that i get from my 383 dollar paychecks.

 

[VeronicaGia]

Thank you for the reply. I plan on getting married soon and My X keeps taking me back to court every other day for anything she can think of. Every time we go back she gets more from me. I fired my atrny yesterday because of the poor job he has done. As of now i am not in back child support but my job cut my overtime and i will be in rears shortly. I get to live on 60 dollars a week. Thats all that i get from my 383 dollar paychecks.

Also, keep all bank accounts and property titles separate. If you do get in arrears, and you have a joint bank account with your wife, it can still be siezed. And if you get in arrears and file income taxes jointly, make sure your wife files an injured spouse form so she gets her portion of the income tax back.

 

[96SCTA]

Thank god this year i get to file seperatly.( last year with the tax return out of 6000 dollars i only got 1 grand )

Thank you all for your help.