Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey

Ending Child Support Based on Threatening and Bribing a child to change homes
My son is 18 and now going to go to 4 year college, living on campus, about 30 minutes from my home. We have joint custody & I am the primary household and receive child support for him and his sister (15 yrs old). My ex wants to discontinue the child support for our son attending college and has threatened and bribed him to come live at his house and change his ''residence''. He said that otherwise he will cut him out of his will and he will buy him a car if he moves. He is putting my son in a very difficult and unpleasant situation, especially because my son does not really want to live there, further away from his school and his life that has been for the past 18 years - we have been divorced/seperated since he was 5. He pays a decent amount of support and am willing to amend that amount when he is living at school full time. Can my ex mandate that the child live with him in order to change his support obligations at this point after all these years? What legal right do I have to fight it if the child is being pulled by threats and bribes? Thank you for your help in advance, this has been a most interesting case from day 1.

Asked on 5/20/08, 7:05 am

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Robert Davies The Davies Law Firm, P.A.

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Re: Ending Child Support Based on Threatening and Bribing a child to change homes

How despicable.

You need to help your son fight this nasty attack, and you need a smart lawyer too.

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Answered on 5/20/08, 12:43 pm

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