Going straight forward...antlers 6th thread.

[antlers]

There is no hearing. There's gonna be a separate trial for the contempt charge. My lawyer is gonna try to consolidate it with the trial concerning custody and property.
Her lawyer filed contempt charges against me for failure to pay child support, about a week after the final resolution conference.
I didn't understand the initial order. I'd never been to court in my life. The initial hearing was last October. Nobody ever said "you need to start paying." My attorney should have, and I would have. I got something in the mail last Feb. telling me that I was supposed to start paying the previous November! I e-mailed my attorney about it and she never got in touch with me about it. Then, in preparation for the final resolution conference, some papers asked about child support arrearage, and my attorney's staff wrote "not applicable"...so I still believed that there was not a problem.
After the final resolution conference, my attorney told me that I needed to start paying it, so I did...right away. I made the first check out to my kids (I wanted them to know that I was helping them even when they were with their mother). Then I wrote another check about a week later (made out to the kids mother), and later on that day I was notified by my attorney that the opposing counsel had filed the charge...and he mentioned that I made the first check out to the kids. I guess it pissed them off. I made 3 monthly payments in a 3 week period, and have since made a 4th...all before the arraignment on last Monday. I'll definately be more than caught up by the time of the trial in late July.
I explained to the kids mother that I didn't understand the order, and after it was made clear to me, I started paying right away...and that I had made 3 monthly payments in less than 3 weeks...it didn't matter at all.
It's a tactic to make me look bad to the Court, plain and simple.

Hard to get my brain around the hatred that she has for me.