[DrewDevil]

This question was PM'd to me by a poster who wishes to remain anonymous:

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Ok ex wife gets X dollars child support. Current wife talks about divorce from time to time. I've looked up a calculator of sorts how much I would pay wife B based on my salary, overnight vistations, and how much I pay wife A child support.

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Ok if the calculator says I pay wife B X dollars based on all those things and Wife A goes to the courts for more money will they lower wife B's child support? My first instincts would be no they wouldn't but if they base wife B's child support partially on what I pay wife A then maybe it should.

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This is impossible to answer without knowing how your state handles child support issues. Generally speaking, it's really really hard to get child support reduced once it's been set, and it tends to ratchet up, not down. However, if child support is tied to your income and the law says you can't be compelled to pay more than ___% of your net income, then the court would have to make an equitable division, unless you, wife A and wife B all were able to agree on how to split it up.