I pay child support for my two children and at the time my employer pays for their's and my health insurance. My employer is proposing that next year we will have to pay toward our health insurance premums. It is my olbligation alone or does my spouse have to "kick in" toward the health insurance premiums?
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1 :
thats somthing you need to ask your lawer!
2 :
It is the paying parent's (NCP) responsibility unless the order states otherwise. The federal government has really pushed for children to be insured by their parents. If the insurance is unavailable or too expensive you need to have the order modified to reflect that you cannot afford insurance. The child support order may be raised because insurance is no longer provided.
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usually it is the responsibility of the non custodial parent---however look at your divorce decree---it will be spelled out in black and white
4 :
Those are you kids...That shouldn't matter ..Even tho your paying child support you should want the best for your kids even if that means paying more for them ...
5 :
you are only required to provide insurence for the child IF the judge says you have to. its all up to a judge.
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You could get an adjustment on your child support, based on a change of circumstances. The cost of the insurance would likely be split between you, based on the percentages set up in your child support order. Get a copy of the child support guidelines for your state and read them. Inform child support enforcement that you have a change of circumstances and you formally request a modification in your order. Under Public Law 12 (federal laws), they are obligated to represent either parent, upon request, in a modification hearing.
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You can approach this one of two ways. One, check the divorce decree, and see what it says. If you were obligated to pay their health care, it would say so, and you'd probably have noticed it, so it's possible you're off the hook. Of course, your ex can get the case re-opened to consider the issue of increasing child support because the cancellation of your employer health care is a "changed circumstance" that probably warrants revisiting the issue. Or, you can be a man about it and find out what the new premium comes to, and get together with your ex and see what other alternatives there might be, and both of you just figure out what the best thing to do for the kids would be.
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As the last person who answered you said, " You need to check with your divorce decree, it will be spelled out in black and white." Also you can check with you lawyer for the none stated facts. In addition, if you cant pay for the Health Ins and your ex spouse cannot pay either, tell her that she needs to get the children on State Issued Health Care.
9 :
sack up and pay...it's your kid for crying out loud.
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA TO HAVE YOUR CHILDREN ON YOUR POLICY. IN MOST STATES.
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If your divorce agreementt states that you are responsible for maintaining the health insurance for your children, then I'm afraid your on the hook for the entirety of it regardless of how the insurance is paid for. But the big picture is that you are taking care of your children, so you can feel GOOD about living up to your responsibility!
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The non-custodial parent pays
13 :
It depends on what state you live in. I live in Texas and in Texas the father is required to provide health insurance to the child on top of child support. You should check the laws in your state.
14 :
depending on what the court ordered...if court ordered you to pay the health care, you can go back to court for a adjustment hearing. if ex wife is working it would only be fair for her to pay at least half of the premiums....if she is a at home mother then it would be impossible for her to pay.
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