bayangel214
New Member
I posted to this forum a few months ago and received great advice.
Long story short, dad agreed to (in writing) have kids transferred to school where I moved to in August. Much better school district, doesn't change his custody time, and it's 12 miles from their last school.
I gave him something he'd been asking for (a one-on-one night with each of the children each month).
Flash forward to 3 weeks into the new school year where the kids are doing great!!
Dad now wants me to pay his gas cost incurred from my move. He takes the children to school 2x a week. He wants $90/month in gas money.
Do I need to pay that? We've managed to stay out of court the past 6 years and I prefer to do that.
No child support is changing hands (he asked to stop paying me a year ago and I said ok). I pay $150/month for agreed to extracirricular activities for children. Dad said he can't afford to pay. Our MSA does state that those types of things should be split (dance class, soccer, equipment, etc)...but I haven't pushed it because I try not to sweat the small stuff!!
What should I do? I feel like it's right to pay for 1/2 of his added expense, but then I now think maybe I should be asking him to pay for 1/2 the dance classes, etc.
Honestly I think he'll always have something he's not happy about and every time I make a compromise with him, something new comes up.
Thank you!
Long story short, dad agreed to (in writing) have kids transferred to school where I moved to in August. Much better school district, doesn't change his custody time, and it's 12 miles from their last school.
I gave him something he'd been asking for (a one-on-one night with each of the children each month).
Flash forward to 3 weeks into the new school year where the kids are doing great!!
Dad now wants me to pay his gas cost incurred from my move. He takes the children to school 2x a week. He wants $90/month in gas money.
Do I need to pay that? We've managed to stay out of court the past 6 years and I prefer to do that.
No child support is changing hands (he asked to stop paying me a year ago and I said ok). I pay $150/month for agreed to extracirricular activities for children. Dad said he can't afford to pay. Our MSA does state that those types of things should be split (dance class, soccer, equipment, etc)...but I haven't pushed it because I try not to sweat the small stuff!!
What should I do? I feel like it's right to pay for 1/2 of his added expense, but then I now think maybe I should be asking him to pay for 1/2 the dance classes, etc.
Honestly I think he'll always have something he's not happy about and every time I make a compromise with him, something new comes up.
Thank you!