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Conference quark::mennotes-v1

Title:Topics Pertaining to Men
Notice:Archived V1 - Current file is QUARK::MENNOTES
Moderator:QUARK::LIONEL
Created:Fri Nov 07 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 26 1993
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:867
Total number of notes:32923

401.0. "Over 1/2" by DELNI::ROBBINS () Thu Dec 14 1989 12:58

    I have been in DEC since 1976 and just made the step to
    WC4. The problem I now see is that my ex is getting well
    over 1/2 my take home pay. We were divoced two yrs ago.
    At the time child support was set I was working for a
    group that had a 4 day work week. 7-5, but I worked 5
    ten hr days. My question is: Is there a form or place
    to go were I can get the support payment down to match
    my current gross income or do I have to get a lawyer
    and go back into court? There is a big change from 18 hrs
    of o.t. to straight 40.
    
    FR
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401.1DEC25::BERRYBack to the Future...Mon Dec 18 1989 13:258
    I would say, by all means, contact a lawyer and let him figure your
    pay.  They do have a formula for such.  You probably won't have to go
    to court.  A lawyer should be able to take it to the court house and
    have it set up properly without making a case out of it.  Not unlike
    a woman usually having her lawyer draw up a restraining order, which is
    also signed by a judge, but not handled in the court room.
    
    -dwight
401.2A caveat to .1WILKIE::EARLYBob Early CSS/NSG Dtn 264-6252Thu Jan 18 1990 12:4134
re: < Note 401.1 by DEC25::BERRY "Back to the Future..." >


    > I  would  say,  by  all means, contact a lawyer and let him figure
    >your pay.  They do have a formula  for  such.    You probably won't
    >have  to go to court.  A lawyer should be able to take  it  to  the
    >court house and have it  set  up properly without making a case out
    >of it.  Not unlike a woman usually  having  her  lawyer  draw  up a
    >restraining order, which is also signed by a judge, but not handled
    >in the court room.
    
    >-dwight
    
    This not a flame, but a caveat ... to be careful ..
   
    
    This sounds simpler than the NH lawyer who explained it differently.
    When divorced people go back for an 'adjustment', the whole issue
    becomes  a  target,  just  as if it being done for the  first  time.
    (unless there's been some major chanegs in the past 13 years).
    
    What you say is correct in substance, but in sevaral states it does
    require an ammended stipulation.  However, in the past two years the
    cost of living has risen, and a "few" judges done't give tinkers dam
    about whether or not the provider needs to live.
    
    Only a good lawyere can  asses  the  risks in a particular case.  As
    much as i dsitrust some lawyers  and  thier  motives;  only they are
    equipped to handle the specific risk analyis  of  going  back for an
    downward adjustment.
    
    Bob