Legal Question in Family Law in California

It would be in your best interests to get a copy of all the financial information in the other case as a backdrop to determining if you should be taking any action to collect support at this point. Support vectors include support obligations to other children on determining how to allocate support in either your potential case as well as the pending matter.

You both could receive less in child support due to the fact that he is paying child support to someone else. The children would not be treated differently based solely on the fact that some are legitimate and some are not, and it isn't first come, first serve, but you can't collect until you file.

I am glad for your children's sake that the relationship is good. That is a gift everyone will benefit from, including yourself.

Having said that, and not trying to cause issue, but I hope he is making every effort to obtain employment. I don't know what you are waiting for as far as expecting him to step up to the plate and providing support, since you say that he hasn't paid support for several years, and may sometime in the future make more. How much longer? Your kids need and deserve support now, not after they are grown. Even if you don't need the money, that is college funding that the kids won't have to worry about. Kids don't stop needing food, clothing, or a place to sleep just because someone has not planned to financially care for their children. The Courts are not real sympathetic toward someone who spends years unemployed. A judge would tell him to work three low paying jobs, whatever, take care of your obligations. I tell women the same thing. ESPECIALLY don't go out and get another woman pregnant when he hasn't been taking care of the two he already had.

The first attorney answered this question very well.