multi state errors
(Ohio) hello, I'll try to make this problem as brief as possible. It took me a long time to wrap my brain around what happened, and I;m still seeking a solution. Previously I was divorced in nevada while in the military, and recieved a default divorce and support obligation. I soon after moved and remarried and was sent to iraq where I recieved another default divorce from Ohio. This second divorce somehow over rode the first support and all garnishments were sent to the second wife of which i had no knowledge till much later. about two years later i father another child and made court arrangements for payment of support on the third child. Upon leaving the military I went to the child support office and asked for a modification, nothing was ever completed and when asked they told me that the obligee had never submitted any financial paper work and so they could not go forward. as permitted by law I again asked three years later for another modification, again same result except the third mother had moved and they decided to refund me 3k in payment for overpayment to her previous state, but no modification was done. I waited another three years and again asked for modification, and was given a hearing in which the administrative hearing officer told me that there was nothing they could do, because it was a court order and they couldnt change it. during this hearing I was also told that my garnishment of 55% of pay had mostly gone to the 2nd mother in ohio and that now the other two mother presently in 1st(florida), and 3rd(N. Car), had huge arrearages. They then said that I could contest the findings in court, but that support would continue on the arrears. So I began really reading the ORC for Ohio and alot of suprising things were learned. Like they never use the proper calculations any of the three cases, and each were never collaborated so that the percentages would decline with each succeeding child. when I presented this argument to the hearing officer and showed that not only the ohio child support guidline had been deviated from and that my soldiers and sailors act was thrown out while I was in iraq, giving me an obligation of 140% of my income, all he could say was because three different judges had not seen the others orders, each had indepently given me seperate orders based on the same pay. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how child support can go around state guidlines request so much obligation, even though its in violation of its own ORC code. At the law library they said maybe i should file a relief of motion 60B because of the error, however with no money because of the still 65% support being taking for my 21, 20, and 19 year old daughters I find it hard to retain any cash for lawyers, and I really dont feel good about trying pro se, which appears to be my only avenue. seeing that legal clinics dont do child support cases. What do you suggest?
Last edited by bigrain; Mar 23rd, 2009 at 03:04 PM.
Reason: Entering obligors state
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