Her Dad Found Out That Her Mom Stopped Paying Her College Tuition, So Now He Is Threatening To Seek Out Child Support Backpay And Formally Charge Her Mom For It
This young twenty-year-old woman has pretty much been raised by her dad for her entire life.
Right after she was born, her mom and dad did work out a co-parenting arrangement. But, after she turned one year old, her mom stopped going to visit her as frequently. Then, that eventually turned into her mother barely ever seeing her at all.
And by the time she turned four, her mom had gotten married to a different man. So, her mom and stepdad ultimately moved away and had three children together.
“I don’t really know them that well since I live in the same state as my dad, and I didn’t visit my mom much when I was younger,” she revealed.
Despite her mom being pretty absent from her life, though, both of her parents had still worked out an unofficial agreement pertaining to her college education.
More specifically, after leaving, her mom was supposed to pay for her college tuition in exchange for her dad never seeking out child support payments.
So, she has since enrolled in a community college where she has gotten a few scholarships. And these scholarships have made it, so her tuition payments were never over six hundred dollars.
Now, though, she only has one semester left until she graduates and recently registered for all of her remaining course requirements.
After she texted her mom to tell her that and mention when the down payment was due, though, she was pretty shocked to find out that her mom no longer plans on footing the bill.
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In fact, her mom claimed that since she is now an adult and has a job, she could just afford to pay for the semester by herself. Rather than starting an argument off the bat, though, she tried to be understanding and just asked her mom what had changed.
“I asked if she just couldn’t afford to send anything right now, which would be fine. I wouldn’t be upset about it or anything,” she recalled.
Her mom did not beat around the bush in her response, though. Instead, her mom just said that she should not have to give any money since she is no longer her mom’s responsibility. Yikes.
So, she ended up just paying for her own tuition since she did not want to deal with pesky overcharge fees. Due to the unexpected extra expense, though, she was forced to pick up some extra shifts at work in order to afford her other living necessities.
And those extra shifts caused her dad to take notice. More specifically, he realized one day that she was going to work when she was supposed to be off and asked why she was doing that.
So, at that moment, she was forced to reveal that her mom had given up on paying for her college– pushing her to take care of it by herself. And if you could not have guessed, her dad was pissed.
He ended up actually calling her mom and claiming that if she did not adhere to their agreement for as long as she was in school, then he was going to seek out backpay on the child support and formally charge her mom for it.
Rather than her mom just stepping up to the plate, though, her mom actually threw her into the line of fire. Her mom texted her a few times, all angry that she had told her dad the truth about the payments.
Then, her mom tried to defend the decision to withhold the tuition– claiming that it was just one semester and that she is an adult now who should be expected to pay her own bills.
To be honest, though, since she realized that she sparked a bunch of family drama by spilling the beans to her dad, she kind of feels like the jerk in the situation.
“I guess I didn’t really have to get my dad involved and tell him about it,” she said.
At the same time, though, she does realize that the most money her mom has really ever spent on her was the cost of a birthday card and the postage stamp once a year.
So now, she has been left torn and wondering whether telling her dad that her mom stopped making her college payments was a snarky thing to do or if it was justified being that her dad has paid for her entire upbringing.
Why do you think her mom decided to stop making the payments out of nowhere? Does it matter that she is an adult now, or is it more about the principle of her mom never paying for any of her childhood expenses? Do you believe it was wrong of her to tell her dad what happened or not?
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