My case went to trial 2 years ago. My child's father has paid me child support since then in the table amount without interruption. In the last week ,I've discovered that instead of paying me directly each month, he voluntarily elected to start paying support through the FRO. I am wondering why any payor would chose to involve the FRO? Any ideas out there?
Why FRO now?
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Gary M
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I would do it if there was a possibility that my payments would ever be questioned: Done through FRO, nobody can ever come back and say that they didn't get the payment... that's one possible reason. Another might be if I paid by cheque and those cheques weren't promptly cashed one at a time.
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Gary
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Gary
So you know for sure that he voluntarily elected to start paying through FRO?
My girlfriend has recently gone through a custody battle...had one case conference and a few months later, automatically received some paperwork from FRO. She had never ever contacted them/had no clue what was going on. Turns out that the courts automatically involve FRO now here. Her and her ex signed the withdrawl form to not have FRO involved after that.
My ex collected child support from me and then contacted FRO and lied, saying I had never ever paid her. She scammed me out of $4000 this way, they were garnishing half of my pay cheques/giving it to her. She collected $12,800 in one year by doing this. It is going to take me a very long time to recover financially from this---if I ever do, considering all the other finances involved.
Now I am glad that FRO is involved with the child support---she won't be able to say I've never paid her child support again.
Now our issue is the babysitting---does anyone know if FRO could get involved with the babysitting? and she would be required to send them the babysitting receipts in order for them to collect the payments from me?
As it stands right now, she is just sending me monthly e-mails, saying I owe her an amount and not giving me any real legitimate receipt from the daycare provider. I have to pay her in cheque.
She's not following right of first refusal---so for pa/pd/holidays, I refuse to pay her, and she is threatening a motion of contempt now over these days.
Such hassel to deal with! I would rather have the babysitting through FRO as well.
My girlfriend has recently gone through a custody battle...had one case conference and a few months later, automatically received some paperwork from FRO. She had never ever contacted them/had no clue what was going on. Turns out that the courts automatically involve FRO now here. Her and her ex signed the withdrawl form to not have FRO involved after that.
My ex collected child support from me and then contacted FRO and lied, saying I had never ever paid her. She scammed me out of $4000 this way, they were garnishing half of my pay cheques/giving it to her. She collected $12,800 in one year by doing this. It is going to take me a very long time to recover financially from this---if I ever do, considering all the other finances involved.
Now I am glad that FRO is involved with the child support---she won't be able to say I've never paid her child support again.
Now our issue is the babysitting---does anyone know if FRO could get involved with the babysitting? and she would be required to send them the babysitting receipts in order for them to collect the payments from me?
As it stands right now, she is just sending me monthly e-mails, saying I owe her an amount and not giving me any real legitimate receipt from the daycare provider. I have to pay her in cheque.
She's not following right of first refusal---so for pa/pd/holidays, I refuse to pay her, and she is threatening a motion of contempt now over these days.
Such hassel to deal with! I would rather have the babysitting through FRO as well.
Gary M
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I think that answers your question (why would he do that?) - not saying that it's right or wrong or smart or stupid for him to have done so
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Gary
NBDad
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You will get it eventually. Usually takes FRO 6-8 weeks to get off their collective asses.
and @knackered:
Pay nothing without a receipt. If she asks for payment, you ask for a copy of the receipt and make arrangements to pay the provider directly.
Bank what you can of her request, just in case she tries any funny business. (That way you aren't hit all of a sudden with a huge payment)
FRO enforces hard numbers, not calculations. If childcare is to go thru them, your ex would need to seek a NEW order that figures out how much you would pay monthly, and then puts THAT exact figure as a payment for FRO enforcement.
and @knackered:
Pay nothing without a receipt. If she asks for payment, you ask for a copy of the receipt and make arrangements to pay the provider directly.
Bank what you can of her request, just in case she tries any funny business. (That way you aren't hit all of a sudden with a huge payment)
FRO enforces hard numbers, not calculations. If childcare is to go thru them, your ex would need to seek a NEW order that figures out how much you would pay monthly, and then puts THAT exact figure as a payment for FRO enforcement.
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