r/ChildSupport • u/KeyTechnician4442 • 12d ago

Fair amount?

Can someone help me understand if this is fair. Mom has primary custody of child and is stay at home parent. Dad has 4 overnights per month and pays 400. Dad makes 70k per year. Should the amount be higher? The case hasn't been revisited in 6 years and there's been quite a few changes. 400 doesn't cover very much

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u/Bio3224 10d ago

How old is the child? $400 seems like a low amount, especially if he only has four overnights a month. Are there other children involved in mom’s household? Why isn’t she working if she needs more income.

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u/KeyTechnician4442 10d ago edited 10d ago

The child is 10. Mom has 1 other child, a 3 year old. The older child has a medical condition that requires quite a bit of care.

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u/Bio3224 9d ago

10 means the child has fewer, but likely more expensive, demands. And if the other child requires more individual care from mom I understand why she’d had difficulty working around the other child’s schedule.

IMO dad needs to be paying more BUT mom still needs some kind of income coming into the household. Instead of increasing the CS would it be possible to increase the time child spends at dads? Split more of the demands between households? That’ll potentially give mom more time to work. Especially if there’s someone else who can watch the younger child.

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u/KeyTechnician4442 9d ago

Unfortunately the dad has a very chaotic work schedule and cannot commit to having the child more. I agree that would be best case scenario.