Sorry that I am asking so many questions right now. I won't have an opportunity to get to a family law office until at least next week, and I am feeling overwhelmed by how much I really do not know.
My ex and I are attempting to come to an agreement regarding child support and a parenting plan.
1) For the past three years, they have lived exclusively with me and he has seen them intermittently (not consistently). He now has moved closer and wants them more often. If I have the children primarily, with my ex planning to have them every other weekend (with additional weekends when we agree to them), AND we split the summer and alternate holidays: what is our arrangement exactly? I have been trying to figure it out - we have never been to court, so my understanding is that we have joint legal custody, and I have sole physical custody and he has visitation? Or is it something else? Also, what does all that mean in a legal sense?
2) I am confused about calculating child support. He has made a few payments in the last few years, but we have never really sorted it out. Is CS calculated initially on the previous year of income alone, or an average of the past three years? What about the following years calculations? Do I have to provide him with my income information if he doesn't want to pay anything for section 7 expenses? Do we use our incomes alone or household incomes (important: I have been a stay at home mom for the past year, so don't have income from the past year (my husband is working), but would from previous years. Ex does not work and is supported by his common-law partner, but did work in previous years).
I hope that all made sense.
My ex and I are attempting to come to an agreement regarding child support and a parenting plan.
1) For the past three years, they have lived exclusively with me and he has seen them intermittently (not consistently). He now has moved closer and wants them more often. If I have the children primarily, with my ex planning to have them every other weekend (with additional weekends when we agree to them), AND we split the summer and alternate holidays: what is our arrangement exactly? I have been trying to figure it out - we have never been to court, so my understanding is that we have joint legal custody, and I have sole physical custody and he has visitation? Or is it something else? Also, what does all that mean in a legal sense?
2) I am confused about calculating child support. He has made a few payments in the last few years, but we have never really sorted it out. Is CS calculated initially on the previous year of income alone, or an average of the past three years? What about the following years calculations? Do I have to provide him with my income information if he doesn't want to pay anything for section 7 expenses? Do we use our incomes alone or household incomes (important: I have been a stay at home mom for the past year, so don't have income from the past year (my husband is working), but would from previous years. Ex does not work and is supported by his common-law partner, but did work in previous years).
I hope that all made sense.
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