MLC? Maybe you can tell me...

[Bird]

Thanks for the advice, Job. It's good to have it in black and white when I start feeling bad and begin to waffle. After all, it's not my feelings toward him that have changed.

The thing in my state about support and maintenance is so gray. Based on the # of years married, maintenance can be paid for length of time of 30%-40% of the marriage. In my case, that's 5.3 - 7.7 years. I of course wrote it for the max of 7.7 years. He wants to split the difference at 6.5 years. He used "our situation" when it really means "the length of our marriage". Ugh.

The support... we technically have joint custody 50/50. My attorney wrote up the agreement with the formula showing his support as though I had primary custody. We decided not to deviate any farther down than necessary. So what he wants to pay is still within state guidelines for 50/50 custody. My argument is that he isn't paying for anything for them and has never taken them back to school shopping etc. I can't rely on him to buy someone a laptop if they need it... I know I will be footing the bill for most things for the girls. So he may thing we have equal distribution of expenses for them, but we don't really.

So I will get what I'm entitled to buy law, but since it's such a gray area it is still workable within a range. Maybe the answer is we just try to meet in the middle to avoid taking it to court.