Need help saving my family - part 10

[Scorp7]

Good points. I guess maybe I'm just being overly optimistic that in time things will get much better. Considering how things have gone maybe that's nuts. I just have a feeling that even if things get worse in the short term that over the long haul they will improve a lot.

As far as the support vs time thing, up here they are pretty well set in stone unless the parents agree on something different. Here, we use a table that's related directly with the gross income of the parent that makes the most money. If that parent has the kids for less than 40% of the time then the other parent gets X amount of dollars no matter how much they earn themselves. If my W and I have 50/50 with the kids I will still pay her support at a reduced amount based on the difference in our incomes as per the laws here. I would support our kids while they are with her anyway no matter what the law said which is something that I'd like to convey to my W just so she knows she will have financial support regardless of 50/50.

You guys are right though, the way it's gone having things set in stone would be best, provided the stone said we were sharing 50/50.