MY EX INSISTS ON PAYING CHILD SUPPORT DIRECTLY TO THE KIDS OR TAKING CREDIT FOR OTHER EXPENSES PAID FOR THEM

No...not...negative. You have an order that says, "Defendant shall pay child support to the plaintiff", or something similar to that. It always amazes me that some knotheads don't understand some part of 'shall' or 'to the plaintiff'. Sometimes, the courts have viewed those contributions as gifts and enforced collection of arrearages. While the court might not necessarily find the obligor in contempt the first time this comes up, the debt is nevertheless collectible in other ways...like garnishment, for example.

The order is not a guideline. It is a command. It is a judgment, enforceable according to its literal terms. Do not trifle with the courts here. Pay what the order says to, when it says to, and how it says to pay and a lot of energy and money can be saved.

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