Now my ex-spouse wants to fight to receive child support from me. I cannot exercise my visitation every month due to the distance. He is the one that moved even further away. He is remarried and their combined income is probably at least four to five times more than mine. Suggestions, checklists and worksheets for creating win-win parenting agreements.
Different states have different approaches to child support.
This federal law has pretty much reduced the number of variables that are used to compute child support to such basic items as parental income and time spent with the children. And an obligation to support previous children may serve to lessen the amount. It's possible that the courts would consider a travel expense as a variable that can be used to adjust child support downwards, but you'd have to ask a knowledgeable lawyer who practices in the state in which the child support order was issued. Another possibility is to ask the court that issued the divorce decree to modify the custody or visitation part of the order to require your husband to pay for the transportation, which would eliminate the child support issue altogether. But it still means going to court.