Episode 87 what needs to be done in that hearing

The Child Support Agency truth

In this episode, I talk a little about what happens in an actual "Child Support" hearing.
The main thing is that you need to get everything taken care of IN THAT HEARING because if there is anything on the judgment that comes from that hearing that needs to be changed after that hearing, it is VERY hard to get anything changed and it is also VERY EXPENSIVE for example, it my initial hearing where I didn't know about American "Child Support" I was given a judgment with over 10K in back "Child Support" and $798.22 per month for a single child and at the time, I was earning 40K a year. To get that changed to something more affordable to me was EXTREMELY hard. That back child support was already paid by me, so I didn't fight for that. I just wanted to $798.22 per month to be lowered. I only got that done I think because the mother still used the same attorney at the time and he was in the other room during PRIVATE mediation (always do any mediation with a private mediator, public mediation does not do anything but cost money) a NEW judgment was signed by a sitting judge that reduced
my monthly obligation down to $300.00 per month. When I sat down to meditate at private mediation, I stated that we were not going to mediate anything here unless we agreed that any and all changes made today are retroactive to the date that I first filed this petition, which was 1 year before (I got that from some YouTube video I watched)
this is the difference between public and private mediation my mediator's name was Amber Bowls and she was AWESOME! She got up right then with her paper that had my request written on it, she went to the other room where the other side was and she sold that to them! They agreed to that which prevented me from leaving right then. So we spoke about things and Amber went over and sold it to them, she would come back and say they will only agree to that if you agree to this. I would say yes or no. That went on for like an hour and a new judgment came from that and I was elated, to say the least. Then a few years later the mother could not afford to pay that attorney any longer (I think) so I had to deal with her new lawyer, she wanted to move with my son to the foreign country of Greece and keep me paying "Child Support"

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