Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland

Re: Voluntarily Impoverished Parent

If your boyfriend is paying for health insurance for his child, that should be considered in child support calculations, according to the guidelines. If the mother is working at more than a part time job, or has more than one job, all of her income should be included in the calculations. You don't say whether the mother is in fact working more than part time. If she isn't, and has a child under two years old at home, the court cannot attribute full time income to her. The following is not an answer to your question, but I will say it anyhow: Your boyfriend has had two child support modification hearings in two years, and has another coming up.

It sounds almost like he has a hobby of going to court about child support. Even if he is not represented by an attorney, the cost to everyone involved of going back to court this often can be enormous, not just in dollars spent but in time, energy and emotional expenditures. The constant returns to court preserves all of the hostilities which were there at the time of the divorce, and inevitably this has a bad effect on the children concerned. No one should be expected to play the victim and pay unreasonable amounts of child support, but sometimes the cost of a court fight about a few dollars is more harmful than helpful.

End of editorial. I hope the child support gets worked out in a fair and reasonable way which keeps everyone satisfied for a long time.