Hello Ladies!

The father of my child still pays child support for my 14 year old and is paying rears for not paying for several years. I just started to see some support show up a little over a year ago. My 19 year old is in college and believes she is entitled to some of this back support (the father still pays the same amount per month for both kids which is around $1200). However, I think the money is mine since I had to go all those years without receiving child support. I am well off now and have never been in debt, because I had enough money to cover my children's expenses at the time the father wasn't paying. Is there any way my 19 year old could make any of the rears go to her? She claims she can.

Sydney: Speak with a Family Lawyer in the State where you live about this.

I think she can not!

Sydney,
I was 29 years old when my father started paying back child support for my sister who was 28 years old at the time and me. My mother supported us during the many years my father paid nothing and I felt she was supposed to have that money. My sister disagreed, she felt the money should go us. In my opinion that money was supposed to pay for the day to day care of the child/children and just because he is paying now instead of then the money was still spent on the child's care, you are just now receiving his part of it. It's not a bonus
Brandi