Life Happens—But Your Plan Doesn’t Have to Fall Apart

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.4	Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.6	Live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, it's the Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love and create actual amazing relationships.
0:26.3	Ken Coleman, Ramsey personality, number one, bestselling author and host of the new Ramsey
0:31.5	Network's hit front row seat. He's my co-host today. Open phones here at AAA 825-5-225. Thanks for being with us. Anna is in Huntsville,
0:42.9	Alabama. Hi, Anna. How are you? Hi, I'm good. Thanks for having me. Sure. What's up in your world?
0:50.4	So my question is I am seeking advice on how to stay afloat after a divorce and my ex-husband is not paying child support.
1:00.0	Why?
1:01.0	Well, so I was married for 20 years.
1:05.0	Why is he not paying child support?
1:07.0	Okay, well, he uses it to control me. It was an abusive marriage, and I've been out for five years,
1:18.0	and so for that five years, I mean, it's been a tool that he has hung on to that he can control me with.
1:25.8	How far behind is he on his child support payments?
1:31.1	It's hard to even tell.
1:32.9	And I've gone that whole route with D.H.R.
1:36.8	They, you know, they don't actually go and get him.
1:40.4	You know, there's a warrant out or whatever.
1:42.6	So I guess I don't want to go down that too far because I want to know what can I do to
1:49.8	stay afloat and support myself.
1:54.3	I'm tired of being controlled.
1:55.6	I mean, obviously, you mathematically have to build a life that doesn't include child support
1:59.6	is the answer to your question, right?
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