The dreaded LIMBO

[4luv]

I have not done court assigned child support(CS) yet. I was planning on doing a voluntary amount but when I talked to the FT yesterday during our appointment, he recommended that I handle it through the courts because husband's actions are showing him not to be trustworthy. The FT also based it on the fact that husband has a voluntary CS set up with OW and a few months ago he lowered her payments. She agreed to the lower payments (for what reason I don't know) but I think it is because she thought that they were about to be/live together.

So, I was going to try the voluntary support first. If I go with the court ordered CS I will have to file in the state where husband lives because it is based on where the child lived for the past 6 months. If I wait 5 more months then I can file in the state where I currently live. I was trying to avoid having to make the trip back to husband's current state. I am going to look into it more though. I would rather have court ordered child support so that I don't have to contact husband about late payments, etc.