Hi,
I have been reading these forums for quite some time and thought it was a good time to ask a couple questions!
I have 3 kids, 8, 10, 12 - no special circumstances. My ex has Sole custody for no other reason that I believed her threat that she would spend all of the equity she had if I fought for joint custody. All of my decisions were made in the best interested of the children - I did not want them to have to move and I wanted to live close to them. I needed money and I needed my ex to have money to allow that to happen.
I have a Separation Agreement in the province of Ontario from 2007 that states that basically states I will pay child and spousal support. She is currently unemployed and has stated that she has no intention of becoming employed because it would only put more money in my pocket and it would somehow hurt the kids. There is nothing in the agreement to impute an income to her nor stating that she will get a job. She agreed to do this verbally and has since recanted. She also refuses to give me her Notices of Assessment even though I have given her mine and I know that she has employment income.
We are both still single.
I currently make about $91k and pay $1,300/month in spousal and $1,700/month child support. With the pay cut and with at source tax deductions, my net income now is about $918 every 2 weeks. If I earned $10/hour I would net close to $780. There is something very wrong with that picture.
Problems:
1) My employer has instituted a 10% salary reduction for all staff effective February 1, 2009. My ex refuses to participate and has stated that she will simply ask for more if we go to court.
2) She refuses to get employment. She has a University degree and TESL Instruction certificates and was out of the workforce for about 5 years to raise our kids till they were in school full time. That was interrupted with the divorce. She worked Full Time for 12 years and stopped after the birth of our 2nd child. She has no disabilities or reason not to work.
So I have 2 questions:
1) What are my chances of getting a motion to vary CS & SS to go though that would match my 10% pay cut?
2) What are my chances in getting an order for her to go back to work or getting an income imputed to her?
Thanks for any suggestions!
I have been reading these forums for quite some time and thought it was a good time to ask a couple questions!
I have 3 kids, 8, 10, 12 - no special circumstances. My ex has Sole custody for no other reason that I believed her threat that she would spend all of the equity she had if I fought for joint custody. All of my decisions were made in the best interested of the children - I did not want them to have to move and I wanted to live close to them. I needed money and I needed my ex to have money to allow that to happen.
I have a Separation Agreement in the province of Ontario from 2007 that states that basically states I will pay child and spousal support. She is currently unemployed and has stated that she has no intention of becoming employed because it would only put more money in my pocket and it would somehow hurt the kids. There is nothing in the agreement to impute an income to her nor stating that she will get a job. She agreed to do this verbally and has since recanted. She also refuses to give me her Notices of Assessment even though I have given her mine and I know that she has employment income.
We are both still single.
I currently make about $91k and pay $1,300/month in spousal and $1,700/month child support. With the pay cut and with at source tax deductions, my net income now is about $918 every 2 weeks. If I earned $10/hour I would net close to $780. There is something very wrong with that picture.
Problems:
1) My employer has instituted a 10% salary reduction for all staff effective February 1, 2009. My ex refuses to participate and has stated that she will simply ask for more if we go to court.
2) She refuses to get employment. She has a University degree and TESL Instruction certificates and was out of the workforce for about 5 years to raise our kids till they were in school full time. That was interrupted with the divorce. She worked Full Time for 12 years and stopped after the birth of our 2nd child. She has no disabilities or reason not to work.
So I have 2 questions:
1) What are my chances of getting a motion to vary CS & SS to go though that would match my 10% pay cut?
2) What are my chances in getting an order for her to go back to work or getting an income imputed to her?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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