I just found out that the child support agency doesn't have an active case for me. The ordred amount that I have in paper is what the judge has odered my X to pay. The lady at child support said that I have to come down and open a case with them. Am I going to have the same amount, or is child support going to recalculate it? Also, my X pays child support for another child that he has with another women. Is child support going to recalculate her amount, too?

This is so frustrating! What is the difference between the judgement that I was ordered by the judge and having the child support agency do it?

I think you just have to "open" it. I know in MA I could go online somehow (I think that is what I did)... but since my ex doesn't pay it through the state it just shows as zero. It shouldn't change your amount. When you went in front of the judge I'm guessing the financial statements showed what he was paying to his other child's mom?

Nope. I never appeared in front of the judge because my X defaulted on the court papers, so my lawyer punched the numbers into a program, without my X's financial stuff (he isn't working, so his income was based on him being able to work a minimum wage job, 40 hrs/week). I noticed that his other child support payment wasn't calculated into the figure, but I wasn't about say anything about it. But I was figuring out the numbers with a support calculator, and with the child support for his other child figured in, he'd only be paying me about $75 more then he does for the other, and he's paying me for 2 children. So that didn't seem right or really fair. So I was wondering if they'd recalculate the other women's support. She does bring home more money then I do, too.

Meggs: This is my first time using this, so I hope I'm doing it correctly.

I've litigated well over 1,000 child support cases for the county over the past four years. I can help you a bit.

If the court has made a child support judgment, the county agency will enforce it. If there is no judgment, the County can get one for you. All the county's services are for free, but not always the best. You will open a case with the County (their own internal case) and then they will enforce the existing order. Your order never changes, regardless of other child support orders the father may have against him. The only thing that changes your order is a modification of the order in court, or the children emancipate.

I love children and I'm passionate about helping single parents get support for them.

Hope this helped.

Ronn

Also, when there is more than one child support order against a person, they should be calendared in court on the same day for a modification so each order can consider the other in the calculations. There is a way to enter each order into the software and go back and forth until the order stops changing. That is the correct way to do it.