Question

[awest1217]

I am making it by sticking to a very tight budget and pretty much my quality of life has diminished because I have to do everything on half the salary. Luckily I can pay all the normal bills. It is just the extras...like I had to fix the roof and do maintenance on the car.

To make a long story short, he also has complete control of all of our savings. He did give me some of our savings in August after asking since April, but still no child support and I even did a spread sheet showing how much short I will be each month without child support. God is really watching out for me and S so far we are making it, but it is going to get really tough in the cold months.

My therapist yesterday suggested a lawyer just to have them draft a letter about child support and visitation. I want him to have little to no visitation because of the effects on my son and the fact that H only has seen him on average 4 hours a week so it would be tough on S. I am taking this advice. I am worried it will backfire if I start with a lawyer, but H has not contacted me in a week and as I said in a previous post, he sees a doctor today so I text him to say I would like to know what happened and he still has not responded or anything. I don't know if he is mad at me or what, so that makes me more worried to go to a lawyer because I don't want to rock the boat.

I know I have a right to the money to help with S, but I don't want to ruin anything that has been started that is positive...

Any other thoughts?