Hello -

I was divorced 10 years ago and successfully coparented with 50:50. Honestly, my coparent travels for work out of state once or twice a month putting me somewhere in the 55-60% range.

Our oldest is turning 18 in a month and I brought up lowering my child support and following the calculations. Immediately my coparent filed an emergency protective order for her and the kids saying abuse, harassment. Luckily there was someone at the house she was not expecting that could give a statement to police and dcfs that it was all made up and the protective order was dropped. Now she is filing to change the agreement to every other weekend and max child support.

I have lawyered up and have been keeping track of the days given up to me, but I am of course stressed.

Has anyone had this happen? I thought I was in the home stretch with the kids. We have not had any run ins with the court or each other, honestly. It seems to be blowing up out of no where.

Advice to everyone: never get complacent, never let your guard down. Document everything. You’ll need it.