Legal Question in Family Law in Minnesota

Re: EX coming after more money.......

Thank you for your question. In general, your mortgage expense is irrelevant to the calculation of child support. It does not matter who pays the mortgage, since your child support will not be higher or lower no matter who is paying. Child support is based on income, and not on your income after personal expenses.

From your question I am guessing that what you are referring to are not only requests to modify child support, but cost of living adjustments -- COLA adjustments. These are usually done every two years. You will receive a notice from the county that indicates the cost of living has increased, and that your child support will be increased by some (usually small) amount. If your income has not increased by the same percentage as the increase in the cost of living, you can object to the COLA increase by requesting a hearing and appearing before a child support magistrate. You will need to produce evidence of your income to show that this is true. And, once again, your mortgage payments are irrelevant to this.