I am currently in a battle with my ex with regards to child support amounts. We have our children 50/50 it is a shared custody arrangement. We used the set-off approach to determine the child support amount as we both make a high income. I am the higher income earner and pay approx.. 2K a month to her at the end of it all. On top of that we also split child care and activities like swimming and piano. She claims that I also need to pay half of school supplies, clothes, boots, school bags etc.. since they will be with me 50%. She claims that I need to provide those daily living expenses when they are on my 50% time. For example I paid half of camp fees this summer, so now I am expected pay half of all their camp accessories. I am fine with this, it is a small expense but wait a minute!! Haven’t I just equalized the households by paying a large sum to her? Now I have to buy extra on top of this?? Should she not be using the money I give her for this?
I tried to search the internet for legal wording on shared custody with regards to daily expenses but could not find any exact cases or articles. If she is correct, then what exactly am I paying for?<O</O
I tried to search the internet for legal wording on shared custody with regards to daily expenses but could not find any exact cases or articles. If she is correct, then what exactly am I paying for?<O</O
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