When the doing the right thing is always wrong
by Barry
I have read many of stories on this site and many of us are going through similar things. I am hoping someone can give me advise on my situation. I have a 9 year old daughter and never been married to her mother. I have been paying an agreed amount of child support to her mother for over 7 years never late unless it was due to things beyond my control where she did not allow me to see my daughter on the days I was supposed to see her. During this time I also raised the amount of child support as my daughter got older with no complaints and pay most of if not all extra fees for schooling, etc. The mother and myself are now married to other people and she since has had another kid. My wife has been laid off and has recently gotten a part time job to help pay bills. Last year, my daughters mother has forced me to pay her mother (my daughters grandmother). Over $400 extra a month to pick her up from school and keep her for a couple of hours until she gets off of work. I did suck up and payed the money for about 6 months, until she made claims to a child enforcement agency. I was then surprised at this and contacted the agency or mediator and told him the situation. He basically said I was doing what I was supposed to do and had questions on why she is making this claim and hoped he was not wasting his time. She claimed I stopped paying child support(which there is no record of such and never mentioned to the mediator about me paying her mother) and wanted money to come out of my paycheck. I didn't want to agree with it and asked if funds can be taken from my bank account so he tried for that as well.) I then haven't heard from the mediator (enforcement agency) for a month and a half. I now received a letter in the mail for me to appear in court.. I am afraid they are going to make me pay some crazy payments that will put me into financial hardship. Is there anything I can do?
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