Hi there,
I have done a fair bit of research on this and have some outstanding questions as most of the guidance seems to be written in the lens of a Sole Custody situation.
Background:
Child will be 18 in October. Planning to go away for University in Sept 2021, school is likely going to be 5+ hours away. Time is split 50/50 and I pay a fairly high amount of child support and Section 7 as the mother is on LTD. We have a joint RESP with around $25K that will be used to fund some the educational expenses. To date, the situation has been fairly acrimonious and suspect this will be a challenge given the likely reduction in CS and higher expenses that must be shared.
Because I currently pay offset support, there is enforcement happening in one direction only via FRO. This uni-directional enforcement is something that causes many problems as it seems that the expectation that the support recipient is the only parent paying for expenses and entitled to enforcement (this also, in my experience, let's them completely dictate decisions because the other person is on the hook financially). In a situation where both parents should be sharing an expense, this seems to be something that needs to be corrected.
Questions:
I'm sure I will have others, but these are top of mind at the moment.
I have done a fair bit of research on this and have some outstanding questions as most of the guidance seems to be written in the lens of a Sole Custody situation.
Background:
Child will be 18 in October. Planning to go away for University in Sept 2021, school is likely going to be 5+ hours away. Time is split 50/50 and I pay a fairly high amount of child support and Section 7 as the mother is on LTD. We have a joint RESP with around $25K that will be used to fund some the educational expenses. To date, the situation has been fairly acrimonious and suspect this will be a challenge given the likely reduction in CS and higher expenses that must be shared.
Because I currently pay offset support, there is enforcement happening in one direction only via FRO. This uni-directional enforcement is something that causes many problems as it seems that the expectation that the support recipient is the only parent paying for expenses and entitled to enforcement (this also, in my experience, let's them completely dictate decisions because the other person is on the hook financially). In a situation where both parents should be sharing an expense, this seems to be something that needs to be corrected.
Questions:
- Can anybody suggest the best way to deal with this, where both parents have the ability to have enforcement for their respective share? Is the expectation that one parent pays, and the other is subject to enforcement?
- Given the child is going away for school, at a significant distance (it is a co-op program), it seems the expectation that support is not paid to the parent, with the exception of 4 months if the child returns. Given it's a coop program, the child would have a maximum of 4 months over the 5 years, with no real guarantee of coming one the first year. Any thoughts on this?
- Would there be concerns of the mother claiming some kind of need for financial support, given that we have a joint RESP or because she is on LTD?
I'm sure I will have others, but these are top of mind at the moment.
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