Normally, I try and be really positive about things, and I've tried hard to not bad mouth my ex, but today I just can't. He feels absolutely no responsibility towards his children and has done everything in his power to get away with not paying child support and unfortunately, the courts are letting him get away with that.
The court and in this case the judge, in its infinite wisdom, thought that even though I brought to the table tons of evidence of his complete non involvement for years, 6 months of good behavior was enough to wipe it out, and then, to put icing on an already very bitter cake, he doesn't have to even pay back child support.
He gets to have his cake and eat it too, but I'm getting food stamps because I can't afford cake.
I get that judges are trying to be fair to fathers, but I think sometimes they go too far in the other direction.
I have bent over backwards to try and accomodate him and yet, this is one of the things that annoys me the most, is that he accused me of trying to screw him over. How? By asking him to actually contribute to the quality of life for his kids? It's not that I even wanted that much money, just more than the $100 I was getting now. Yes, that really is one hundred, not a typo.
There's not anything I can do now, but suck it up and move on and hope that when he realizes that his kids can't really stand to be around him, it won't be too late to fix the damage that he caused.
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