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Picking up the pieces

Wednesday, Jul 01 in Child support | Comments (2)

Question: Carrie is on Dave's plan and built a house with her husband. They have four kids with another on the way, and her husband just left her. She doesn't know how to pick up the pieces. He makes $100,000 a year and has been paying $3,000 a month in child support. She split some bills with him, but Dave isn't buying into that.

Dave Ramsey's advice: I'm not splitting up any bills; I'm taking everything. You're a full-time mom with five kids ... you're going to get everything. You're going to own him when this is done. Let him have the house and you go rent something a lot cheaper, and let him deal with the debt.

I know you don't want to move the kids, but you don't have a choice. You have five kids and only $3,000 in monthly child support. You need to sell this house and get the assets from this marriage to try and feed these kids. I'm not trying to be vengeful, I'm just trying to protect these kids. I'm going to get an attorney that sees to it that he gets as little as possible.

You need to get some family and some emotional and financial support around you. You need a strong attorney. Then you need to reset your life based on a deeply reduced lifestyle, in order to have a future.

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Many of us have been here and Ditto to what you have said Dave. She needs to OWN him.
I did and my kids and I made it and have a great life. Life will go on and it will be good...better than you can know. Prayer is amazing...I will pray for you
# Posted by Stronger than you think | 7/6/09 2:39 PM
I really hope things work out. Some states really make it hard for single parents to get what they need in a divorce. In my home state, all custody is considered joint and child support is partly based on income. My friend's support payments would have been barely enough to cover rent for the cheapest appartment she could find. She talked to her soon-to-be x-husband (who left her) and went over her finances and what she needed to make ends meet. His response was that she should apply for government aid. She apparently told him that she was not going to apply for government aid just because the father of her children decided to be irresponsible, and that he needed to be a man and take care of his children. At their next meeting with the lawyer he did volunteer to pay extra in child support payments, and the lawyer tried to talk him out of it! She said the only way they lawyer would let him pay extra was if he signed that it would only be for three years.
# Posted by Good luck | 7/6/09 3:23 PM

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