- no need to rush into any child support payments. You know you're a good dad, you know you'll provide for them, you don't have to start paying her that child support now, let her move out and let her pay for her apartment and furnishings, etc. by herself.
There's a method to my madness. She'll never agree to the "pay directly/receipts" thing anyway, and Tristan will be off the hook for anything other than continuing to meet his kids' needs the way he always has. The CS is non-negotiable anyway, and this WILL be the amount he will eventually have to pay if they don't work things out.