Should I Help My Ex-Husband?

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Should I Help My Ex-Husband?: Divorced mom Kelly is wondering if she should forego child support since her ex is struggling financially. - Dr. Laura: "It's time you stop being a weak girl." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:10.0	Kelly, welcome to the program.
0:12.0	Hi Dr. Laura, thank you for everything you do.
0:16.0	I appreciate you saying that.
0:18.0	Thank you. I am going to try to keep it simple since this easy question day, but I have been divorced for 12 years.
0:25.0	I have a 14 and a 16 year old and it was a very dysfunctional relationship and divorce and during my divorce he basically financially did drown me.
0:39.0	And you didn't have an attorney looking out for your best interest?
0:46.0	I think I just really picked the wrong representation.
0:51.0	He picked right and it was a, I just thought it was an open and shut case and it just was not so I came out of it very financially, very financially strained.
1:03.0	He got away with hiding a lot of assets and I just emotionally physically I just couldn't just keep going on with it.
1:10.0	So I just shut that chapter and moved on and so we're 12 years later.
1:16.0	I did financially well, even though I was always present with the kids and would only work during their school hours and such.
1:27.0	And now he is financially in not in a good place and I has been kind of feeding that into the kids.
1:35.0	I get 500 and 50 total a month for two kids that is a lot for him. I think to pay right now. And I just wanted to know if it would probably if I should just tell four go child.
1:47.0	Okay, Kelly, it's about time you stop being a weak girl.
1:53.0	It didn't fight for what was right and now you want to give it up again.
2:02.0	I just wanted to hear it that that wasn't mean because he had the.
2:08.0	He has a legal obligation. He has a moral obligation because you didn't want the fight and you didn't have an attorney to fight for you adequately.
2:20.0	You lost a lot and he took advantage of that and did not fulfill his moral obligation.
2:30.0	That's perfect. That's the way I don't give a damn what his situation is today. He has a moral obligation. Let him figure out how to take care of it.
2:37.0	It's amazing what people can figure out when they really want to.
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