I am a single mom of three, having all with the same man. It started when i was pregnant with my daughter the third child. I constantly stayed sick and decided to let my oldest attend school from his fathers house but he was to return him home. That did not happen, instead to get out of paying childsupport he filed a motion to get full custody of our son and it was granted. Eight years later i am still going to court concerning matters that i am not happy with. My childrens father is on ssd because of chrones disease and he is also receiving food assistance and medicaid for our son which resulted in me having to pay child support as of last year 2008. I am out of almost five hundred dollars a month and it was ordered that i put all children on my insurance through my employer.
I am upset because during the last year i have tried to get my support reduced and was told that i had to wait a year before doing so. I make under ten dollars an hour but receive bonuses if a breaking point is exceeded in sales. 2008 i gross 60k it was a record breaking year for my employer i received very large bonuses but as the enconomy went down sales went down to and i have been struggling every since. Bonus went from 3k a month to 3 hundred dollars or less. When finally getting the chance to file a motion i went in front of Referee Lisa Goldstein who requseted all this information but did not take one look at it because she was so concerned with what i made in the passed. I took multiple check stubs to show that this is what my bonus is this is what im am bringing home the numbers were much lower then before and it didn't matter to her because of my gross income which was lower then 2008 gross income.
I tried to explain okay yeah i may get a bonus that is higher in some months but that is unpredictable what am i to do if there is know bonus or if it's so low to where i cant afford to keep my possessions which would have happened if it wasnt for my family or assistance that i had to apply for. Whenever i miss work to go to court a pecentage is taken from bonus for anyday or hour missed. Now since i'm only bringing home less then seven hundred dollars a month after everything is deducted from my pay check how am i suppose to support the two children that lives with me pay rent bills carnote and insurance if everything i ever worked for is being taken from me. I went to court today to get my support reduced referee Zaira Maio told me it wasnt going to go down by much because of my gross income.
Well i wanted her to look at my net pay what i am actualy bringing home but she didnt care and what she wanted to lower it to i was not happy with because of what has happened to me within the last year. If i dont receive a bonus big enough to cover my bills God only knows what will happen to my children and me. Another thing i don't understand is i filed a motion in December to get my support reduced my x and i went in front of the judge and i said judge i dont think its fair that i have to support all three of my children and their father is not oibligated to anything i said yeah he's on disability but he's also in college to become a mechanic so if he can go to school why can't he find a part time job to help support our children instead of trying to ruin my life because he wants to be on assistance. The judge agreed and told him to bring in something from his doctor stating that he cant work. Today in court it was a diffrent story the referee was on his side and told me when i ask what about me when am i going to get some help because i barely been making it she says he's on ssd and he dont need any documentaions and what the judge said didn't matter.
I have filed complaints of fraud on him with the dhs office because he has been working under the table he gotten married and just bought him a nice car but nobodys questioning him about any of that. I got put out of court and may have to reappear because i used the f word so the referee assured me that the police will be at my house so i dont know what to expect. I think they are full of it and that they are going by rules that they make and i am tired. I am tired of running back and fourth so they can do nothing while loosing money because im not at work i cant function like this and something needs to be done. There are plenty of people that i know that is on disability and obligated to pay support and i know plenty of people that have a disability but still work so what makes my childrens father so special that nothing applies to him. When did there ever become a law that stated those on disability do not have to pay support because if there is Macomb county foc needs to be sued because what applies to one should apply to all to a certain extent if needed.
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