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) I'm a mom in the military and I am about to deploy in a year. I have a 4 year old whom I share 50/50 custody with her father. We live in Arkansas. We were never married. We have established paternity. Neither of us pay child support We have never gone to court or made any arrangements legally. We each claim her every other year on taxes. We split the cost of daycare equally.I have paid for her insurance since she was born, until a month ago. Now we both pay.He currently makes more than me. I did make about as much as him for about 2 years previously. Her father and his significant other will be looking after her while I'm gone. Can he file for child support while I'm gone, along with back pay? What if I filed for it now? Will he have to pay child support even though I won't see my daughter for a year?
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Can he file for child support while you are deployed will depend on your state laws and the judge that might grant him. As long as he serves you properly you should be able to respond / contest it through your military channels if they permit it otherwise most times courts and judges do give a judgment by default for no show and no response. If the support gets established while you are gone than the court might have you back pay it when you return.
what if you filed for it now? You can certainly file for it now while you have the kids and the court will most likely approve it because he makes more money than you and you have the kids right now. What you can do is what I was thinking possibly get on child support now so he will pay you. You save that money for when you are deployed and pay him monthly for support when you are gone using the same money you collected from him. But don’t disclose this fact that you are pursuing support to pay him support while you are away. Pursue support if you really need it.
one you are deployed and he is on child support he will wake up and realize he has the kids and you are not taking care of them so why is he paying you. That is why when I said you should get on support now save the funds and when you are deployed you pay him half of the support or whatever you can afford to pay.
Its better to discuss personal case details via phone or text. Looking forward to working with you.
Answered on Jan 16th, 2018 at 10:13 PM