Legal Question in Criminal Law in North Carolina

I want to know can I take my mom to court for receiving back pay child support for me from my father whom i do not live with either and i don't not live with my mom either not since i was 16 years old and I am 27 years old now. My mom always said that my dad never paid child support for me and he never to care of me and i just recently found my dad and he and his family said that he has been paying child support for me for a long time now and is still paying it but my mom is getting the money and spending it on her husband and herself with clothes shoes and jewelery and i don't think that's fair to me since i am the child i want to know how can i find out if she is receiving child support for me and how long and can i take her to to court for money i never received to take care of me as a kid


Asked on 3/17/13, 7:10 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

If you are 27 and your father is still paying child support basically that most likely means he is paying what he should have paid a long time ago which means your father and/or your father's family are either mistaken or outright lying to you about him making his child support payments properly. When you were a child, at some point your father most likely got behind on his child support payments. Because you are still alive, your mother (or someone assisting you mother) clearly picked up his slack and supported you out of thier own pocket. Therefore the money your mother is receiving now is most likely simply reimbursement for the money she spent on you as a child that your father should have paid back then but didn't and is now being forced to pay. So basically, your mother can do what she wants with the money. And shame on you for wanting to take your own mother to court!

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Answered on 3/18/13, 7:34 am


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