Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey

Re: Dead Beat Mom

Well, it's obvious that you despise the mother of your husband's child, apparently, with some justification.

However, the woman you regard as an evil pariah is still the mother of the child at issue. The law wants to do as much as possible to try to maintain a relationship between the child and both parents, even if there is a certain amount of dysfunction and irresponsibility.

It is not the child's fault that your husband and the child's mother could not get along, and split up. The child is the victim, not you.

If you really wanted to take legal action to collect the child support, you could either hire a lawyer, which would probably be too expensive to make it worthwhile; or contact the NJ or PA authorities in charge of enforcement of child support orders.

You seem resentful that the child's irresponsible mother is allowed to maintain a relationship with the child because "she gave the child life."

But the fact is, she did, and you didn't. Rather than continuing to focus any more of your energy in a negative fashion, on the irresponsible mother, have you considered trying to direct all your energies to making the child's life as positive as possible? The child needs someone to play that role. Why not you?