Can this really happen???
I go on another forum… there was a post in one of them saying that the step father has been contacted by his now ex (step childrens mother) saying he has to pay child support for them now……… is this really legal???

So now that anyone who has their stepkids live with them if they break up with their partner can be paying child support for kids that arent theirs?

Am I sensing being badly judged by non-step family parents
I am a stepmother to a 12 girl and I struggling with my new situation. I have talked to some friends who are not step parents and I feel they are really judging me in a negative manner.. Like ‘her father has been her main parent and poor thing’.

I feel I am being told ‘think of the poor step child’ not yourself. Yet she is not on the bathroom floor crying often because her BM has left again and we have to pick up the load.

I am not saying the child is bad but I am really struggling and often feel like I am a visitor in my own home, whilst my DH and SD just go on as per normal.

Anyway I have learnt now not to say anything to non step parents as I fear negative judgement.

Does anybody else feel this way or am I just super sensitive?

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PASSPORT – DOES THE LAW REQUIRE BOTH PARENTS TO SIGN APPLICATION?
Our question is do both parents have to be in agreeance for a minor to apply for a passport or can only one parent apply?
My husband’s second eldest son who is 15 years old is wanting to go to overseas with his sports team of a couple of months. We are not in agreeance with him going overseas at this young age especially as dh does not know any particulars except that he belongs to this team and that they are going at the end of the season. Our problem here is that he resides full time with his mother and is working on the weekends so no time has been spent in the last couple of months with his father other than by phone and the mother does not converse at all with the father.