Hello All:
I have some questions for this forum on terminating child support. I have a daughter from a previous very troubled short marriage. She has now turned 18 and I have payed child support through FRO all this time, never in arrears. I have had no contact with her or her mother in the last 17 yrs. I have had a hard time finding any information but this is what I have learned.
She is 18 now and I have learned that she is not in high school any longer. She was suspended or something of that nature. She has been attending an alternative learning centre but only sporadically and it is definately not full time. She still has around 18 credits to get her high school. She has had very poor attendance and her mother is on social assistance and does not enforce attendance. With her being 18, I cannot access any records now.
I have recently contacted FRO and my ex through a registered letter to have the support ended based on her no longer being a child of marriage and I sent my ex the withdrawl from FRO form. I have asked for proof of enrollment and attendance records if this is disputed. In the letter to my ex, I gave her 10 days to respond. I will wait and see how FRO responds but I don't think they will help out the payor in any way. I am not expecting any kind of response from my ex.
I am hoping that she will agree and sign off but I really doubt she will. Is there anything else I need to do and does FRO ever actually stop enforcing child support payments or will I have to go to court. I do not have a lot of funds to retain a lawyer so I am hoping that I can handle this on my own.
My SA was under the "old" system and really doesn't specify an ending date but does refer to the child of marriage. I have also been paying slightly under what the tables would determine but my SA didn't have the requirement to update financial information or anything like that, only a standard cost of living annual increase.
Do I have a case for ending child support and how do I prove that she is not in a full time educational program if they refuse to supply any records to me?
I have some questions for this forum on terminating child support. I have a daughter from a previous very troubled short marriage. She has now turned 18 and I have payed child support through FRO all this time, never in arrears. I have had no contact with her or her mother in the last 17 yrs. I have had a hard time finding any information but this is what I have learned.
She is 18 now and I have learned that she is not in high school any longer. She was suspended or something of that nature. She has been attending an alternative learning centre but only sporadically and it is definately not full time. She still has around 18 credits to get her high school. She has had very poor attendance and her mother is on social assistance and does not enforce attendance. With her being 18, I cannot access any records now.
I have recently contacted FRO and my ex through a registered letter to have the support ended based on her no longer being a child of marriage and I sent my ex the withdrawl from FRO form. I have asked for proof of enrollment and attendance records if this is disputed. In the letter to my ex, I gave her 10 days to respond. I will wait and see how FRO responds but I don't think they will help out the payor in any way. I am not expecting any kind of response from my ex.
I am hoping that she will agree and sign off but I really doubt she will. Is there anything else I need to do and does FRO ever actually stop enforcing child support payments or will I have to go to court. I do not have a lot of funds to retain a lawyer so I am hoping that I can handle this on my own.
My SA was under the "old" system and really doesn't specify an ending date but does refer to the child of marriage. I have also been paying slightly under what the tables would determine but my SA didn't have the requirement to update financial information or anything like that, only a standard cost of living annual increase.
Do I have a case for ending child support and how do I prove that she is not in a full time educational program if they refuse to supply any records to me?
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