Putting myself on child support
The first few years of my daughter’s life consisted of me and my child’s mom working out an agreement where I get her weekly from Friday-Sunday and we alternate holidays. Well one year she decided to keep my daughter for two holidays in a row and I got fed up, not only from that but she never included me in anything else pertaining to my daughter’s life. So with the advice from loved ones, I went and put myself on child support. This really gave me a lot more access to my child and rights as a father. The only downside was that I have to pay my child’s mother monthly, which I don’t think is fair because I get her 3 days out of the week and I drive 45 miles there and back 2 days a week. But lately she’s been pushing the envelope. She said she wants to keep my daughter for the month of June since I get to keep her the entire month of July. I don’t think it’s fair at all, but if I bring it up then she’ll revert to the child support order and force me to only get my daughter every other weekend. I really wish there was something I could do but it seems like I’m stuck. No matter how nice I am, she is determined to make things extra hard for me. Even this past May, my daughter graduated middle school and I did not know anything about this but luckily my daughter told me so I was able to get the info myself and attend the graduation, which shocked my child’s mom. Also, even tho my daughter is turning 14 and going to middle school her mom always tells her she’s not allowed to wear any of the clothes I buy her. Instead, she dresses my daughter in 5x tee shirts and extra baggy jeans. I don’t want my daughter getting bullied in high school and I don’t think it’s fair that even tho I buy her school clothes, she’s not allowed to wear those to school. Sometimes she really makes me depressed by making it hard on me. Also, my child’s grandmother on her mother’s side files my daughter on her taxes, which I think is illegal as hell.