Soon to be ex husband isnt paying his child support or alimony. It just started the 1st of June, and the 15th payment was a week late, he wrote me a check and is no good! Glad I didnt try to deposit it into my account. Come Friday, he will be 2 payments behind! He has been out of work and just went back today. It will automatically start coming from his payroll dept. soon but that doesnt help me pay my bills NOW! My phone and electric are past due and due to get shut foo and my rent is due on Monday. EEEkkkkk! I was advised not go get a job as we have two babies that would need to be in daycare and Id have to pay half. Not to mention my child support and alimony would be cut down almost dollar for dollar what I made. It makes no sense for me to even work. I live in a little 2 bedroom apt. so cant do childcare. Any suggestions??

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Can you call your utility company and ask if you can defer the amount due and explain to them what is going on. Most companies will defer teh past due amount and divide it up over 6 months so you pay it off. Same with the phone company. Call your landlord and explain the situation and tell them you will pay them. Do you have anyone that can loan you the $$$ until he gets his first check and you get your $$$$?

I am sorry you are going through this.

I am so sorry you are going though this!!

And I just realized that your name was changed!!

I wish I knew what to tell you. My sister has to track down child support payments all the time. It gets very frustrating. Hang in there. And call the companies and see what they can do for you.

Big hugs!! and good luck!!

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I know nothing about this area, but can't you notify the court and your lawyer about it? It's too bad they don't have a fund that they pay into that gets tapped when a payment is late or missing.

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Yes I agree. You should have inform someone about this. Very irresponsible of him. Maybe he has a reason for the delay of the support? Did you try to ask him or talk to him about this?

I hope you phoned the electric company and informed them of your situation and spoke with your landlord in person.

It appearst that once your ex is working, the support will be automatically deducted.

If you are not already signed up for WIC or foodstamps, see if you qualify. If you are in an area where section 8 housing isn't dangerous to live in, apply for low-income housing.

Check your area food banks and see if you can get emergency food assistance and if you qualify for on-going assistance. Check with your local women's shelter. Ours will offer short-term assistance as well as free clothes, toys, household items and even furniture whenever someone donates furniture to them.

I am very sorry you are going through this. I hope your ex STAYS employed in his job.

First thing to do is call everywhere that you owe money to and explain the situation, they are much more willing to help you if you do so as soon as you possibly can, preferably before anything becomes late.

Document, document, document! You cannot be to meticulous with keeping track of every little thing - I don't know from experience but do know plenty of people whos ex's tried to jerk them around like this, document it if he's even a day late or a penny short.

For help with food, I suggest looking into Angel Food Ministries We've been using them since January and always have a chest freezer full of food. Do a search on this forum, lots of people use this, and theres lots of favorable talk about it.

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