Reimbursement Of Medical Expenses For Children’s Health Insurance

Question: My question is about children’s health and reimbursement of medical expenses. My wife and her ex-husband’s divorce decree states that when either party makes a medical payment “the other party” shall reimburse the appropriate amount within 30 days. My wife recently received from her ex-husband a reimbursement of out-of-pocket …

Are Medical Costs Deducted From Income For Child Support?

Question: My wife is requesting I pay child support after we divorce. I have diabetes and must take insulin to live, though my health insurance doesn’t cover the entire cost. Can the cost of my uncovered medical expenses, such as the necessary insulin, be deducted from my income that will …

Money Made Easy: Why Buy Insurance

We pay for insurance frequently, but we use insurance infrequently. So financial adviser Dan Danford is used to hearing people say they aren’t going to buy insurance because the chances they will ever need it are slim. Though he understands where those people are coming from, Danford, CFP®, CRSP®, MBA, …

Divorce Advice: Paying For Children’s Health Insurance

Question: My ex-wife has a children’s health saving plan and the kids are on her plan. If the kids are on her plan, why am I ordered to pay $85 a month for health insurance and be responsible for half of all medical bills? Isn’t the money I pay for …

Joseph Cordell Discusses Child Custody On Fox News Radio

DadsDivorce.com founder Joseph Cordell appeared on “The Tom Sullivan Show” to discuss how child custody battles are being heavily influenced by family law judges’ biases toward divorced dads. “One purpose of the law is to protect us from those leanings of individual judges, but once you give a judge such …

Can I Modify Child Support If My Ex Moves In With Boyfriend?

Question: My children primarily live with my ex-wife and I pay her child support per our child custody agreements. Her boyfriend has now moved in and they are a cohabitating couple with dual incomes. Do child support laws allow for a modification of child support if her boyfriend is now …

How To Properly Divide Children’s Health Insurance Cost

Question: I need financial advice on divorce in regards to how you divide medical insurance coverage for children’s health payments? The plan is $200 a month no matter how many children are on it. We currently have four children on the plan, two of which are from a previous marriage. …

Children’s health disagreements in joint custody arrangements

Question: My child needs braces, yet my ex-wife is refusing to pay her portion of the uninsured costs as outlined in our divorce judgment. Per our child custody agreements, we share joint legal custody so we have joint decision-making authority on children’s health issues. She claims she cannot afford it …

Money Made Easy: Credit Disability Insurance

Financial adviser Dan Danford answers a personal finance question from a Money Made Easy viewer: “I was going through a mortgage transaction and heard about credit disability insurance. What exactly is this and could the insurance be used for any type of credit or is it only usable on mortgage …

Will I have to reimburse my ex for the cost of providing health insurance?

Question: My ex-wife is threatening to take me to court for years of back pay of health insurance premiums for our children even though I haven’t had access to insurance even for myself. Will I be forced to reimburse my ex-spouse for the cost of providing health insurance for the …