Legal Question in Family Law in Mississippi
Would she be responsible for driving 1/2 way?
When the original agreement was ordered, we both lived in the same town. She moved about 30 minutes away 6 years ago. I have asked her over and over to please meet me half way, but she refuses. Now she has put my daughter in all kinds of activites on my weekend in her town. Not only is she dictating what I have to do with my daughter on my weekends, but now I will have to drive back over there more times per weekend. I asked her again to share driving with me, but she refused. I don't want to hurt my daughter by not allowing her to participate in these activites on my weekends, but her mother is not working with me in any way. I can not afford the time we spend driving each weekend. What can I do?
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Re: Would she be responsible for driving 1/2 way?
File for a modification of the support agreement. The mother's moving away has created a substantial and material change of circumstances, and it is common for the court to order each party to provide one-half of the child's transportation in long distance situations.
It is probable that your daughter's weekend activities are burdening your ex-wife as well on the weekends you don't have your daughter. If that is the case, maybe you can work out some sort of arrangment to pay her what it would have cost you to go back and forth on the weekend in exchange for letting you sleep on the couch during your visitation weekends.
If she is just blocking your visitations, you probably have grounds for having her held in contempt for interfering with your visitation.
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