When we lived in the same town as ex we would share stepson (we had him 60% she had him 40%)
My hubby has not paid child support to ex partner I will explain why. Ex called us one day and asked for $300 to buy new clothes and shoes for stepson, so we gave her money. When stepson came back from his mums, we saw stepson he did not have new clothes or shoes. Ex had spent the money on herself for new clothes, smokes etc, sorry yes she did buy stepson clothes but from the second hand shop. So from that day we never gave her money again. And funny enough that same day stepson wanted to stay with us all the time, so for 5 years he was living with us full time until we moved to QLD (ex didn?t offer any support to us when stepson was living with us full time).
Even to this day the ex partner does not see a cent. YES we do provide financial support to his son, we pay ? school fees, he is on our health fund even tho he is in a different state (he is not on ex health fund) we purchased his first car, we pay for the rego and insurance and when he had the crash and needed things fixed up it was us that helped him with money, pay for travel and buy him clothes etc. My stepson knows that if he ever needs money to call me and I will put the money in his account. We are just so lucky that stepson is old enough that we can put the money in his bank. We know that the money is going directly to him and not to his mothers needs.
Ex thinks that we are ar****les for not giving her money as well. Now that stepson is 18 if we were really ar****les we would stop supporting him but we are not like that.
A Child does not asked to be born the parents chose to bring a child into this world, it is then up to the parents to take care of that child for the rest of their life. Only when the parents die does the responsibility for that child end.
Last edited by mumma_lion; August 27th, 2008 at 01:01 PM.
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