subject: 17 Rules For Lowering Your Child Support [print this page] 17 Rules For Lowering Your Child Support
1. Understand the difference between child support and supporting your child. There's a difference.
2. NEVER listen to anyone that is negative about you lowering your child support.
3. NEVER be intimidated by the X, her attorney, or the Office of Support Enforcement.
4. NEVER deal with the Office of Support Enforcement - go directly to court and see what a real judge has to say.
5. Don't buy into a guilt trip about supporting your kids - make certain you take care of yourself first! If you don't take care of yourself, you can't take care of your kids.
6. Obtain the proper forms that are mandatory or advisory in your State - often free on line.
7. Always ask for the tax exemptions for the kids every year. The Mom gets the head of household income tax credits anyway. What you pay in support on one hand, gets saved on the other in tax savings.
8. Ask for deviations from your State's standard support guidelines, including long distance transportation allowances, allowances for other children you're supporting and extraordinary debt.
9. Use only your basic income as a basis for support and do not include your overtime voluntarily.
10. Include other household income and other financial help the X may be receiving as a basis of your argument that she doesn't need the state standard for support --- that her expenses are being offset by the other income.
11. Reassign child support and call it maintenance or alimony. Child support is paid with after tax-dollars and maintenance is paid with pre-tax dollars. This is a huge savings to you.
12. Average your income over a time period that is to your advantage - 2 or 3 years, demonstrating that recent high income is extraordinary and "not" recurring regularly.
13. Submit complete financial information to the court regarding your monthly income and costs of living. Show hardship if you can. Be creative.
14. Argue substantial injustice and economic hardship because of high support.
15. Write a great declaration for the court being as concise as possible - using bullet points.
16. Avoid negativity and "pot-shots" at the X in your statements to the court. The court hates this.
17. If the X is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed make certain you impute income to her.
If you will follow these simple guidelines for lowering your child support, you're more likely to be successful in lowering your support! Take some time right now and look back over these guidelines. Then, try to follow them to a "T". Use all guidelines that you can and keep trying to work in more options. Have a trusted friend look over your work and ask for objective opinions. This is the true method for knowing that you've got a killer case.
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