brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today i'm dealing with some

family law issues um and it's it's kind of taken over half of every one of my paychecks and i'm kind of

dealing with a dilemma where i'm trying to find the balance between

trying to do what's right for my kids and be financially responsible at the same time.

Can you elaborate a little bit? What are you going through?

So, sure. I had a son when I was 22, still in college, and I later divorced my wife that I had that son with.

Okay.

Then shortly before I graduated, I had a girlfriend, and we got pregnant.

She disappeared on me while we were pregnant.

Okay.

And shortly after I, right before, I was out to graduate, you know, every month I was having to spend several hundred dollars towards attorney's fees to get, you know.

To try to find her?

That, yes, originally. Okay.

So you found her then what happened?

So then around a couple months before I graduated both of these custody disputes kind of started being simultaneous and in tandem. Okay. So my ex-wife, we had 50-50

when we divorced. I was seeing my son every week or the whole week, and I had him, and then we

would trade off like that. She and the ex-girlfriend, they became buddies, and they just both

started. I've never met my daughter that I have with the ex-girlfriend, they became buddies, and they just both started, I've never met my daughter

that I have with the ex-girlfriend, and my son I haven't seen it over a year. So this isn't any

petty dispute over, you know, who gets the teddy bear that he liked when we divorced, and

then, you know, whose house does that stay at? It's like, if I don't spend all this money on these attorneys,

foreseeably, I won't see my kids at all.

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