Child Support/Promisory estopel

[prymtym]

I am a divorced father where as 3 years ago I received a phone call from my ex instructing me that I no longer have to pay her child support as long as I continue to help her out with "incidentals", I also have a letter signed from her confirming the phone call conversation word for word. Now 3 years later she is dragging me to court on a willful violation of no-payment of child support.

Does her letter constitute a Promissory Estopel and me following her "promise" to me aka Detrimental Reliance?

 

[Betty3]

It's probably best if you see what an attorney thinks. Any changes in child support probably should have been done through the court system.

 

[Proserpina]

I am a divorced father where as 3 years ago I received a phone call from my ex instructing me that I no longer have to pay her child support as long as I continue to help her out with "incidentals", I also have a letter signed from her confirming the phone call conversation word for word. Now 3 years later she is dragging me to court on a willful violation of no-payment of child support.

Does her letter constitute a Promissory Estopel and me following her "promise" to me aka Detrimental Reliance?

Not in the slightest.

You're on the hook, I'm afraid.