Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee
Custody/child support
I am a single father of 2. I have joint custody of my children and their mother is the primary custodial parent. Lately she is giving me a lot of grief. Her latest stunt is to pit the day care provider against me (she always try to make me look like I am an abusive person, which is definately not true). Now the daycare provider has informed me that she refuses to take care of my children on the days that are my days with the kids...and she refuses to pick up my daughter from school (she has early release about 1 1/2 hours earlier than my son). I have told her that she needs to speak with their mother because it is her responsibility since she recieves money for work related daycare expense in the child support. She says it isn't my ex wifes problem it is mine, and my ex tells me it's my problem and not hers...that I have to provide for their after school work related day care. I have told her that I certainly can arrange it, but it is up to her to pay for it since she gets money through child support for it. She says she doesn't have to pay for it. who's right?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Custody/child support
Sorry. This question is much too complicated to receive a short answer and there are way to many facts that would have to be known. I know you don't want to hear this but you need to get an attorney. Sounds like a storm brewing and you need to stop it now!
Re: Custody/child support
While I agree with attorney Robert Plummer that you need to speak with an attorney to try to deal with matters, I strongly disagree with him about your question as posed being "too complicated" to answer.
The answer is simple -- the mother and the day care provider are right. It IS your problem.
That said, it would make sense if you and the mother could sit down to work things out as adults, something both of you seem to have problems with. Most likely the Parenting Plan includes provisions regarding what you are to do if you have a dispute regarding the children, and it probably requires you to go thru mediation.
Take a look at the Parenting Plan, and start that procedure.
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