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Recently I read an article about a man that bought a house next to a college and was complaining about the number of cars parked in the area only two weeks later.

I would hope that it would be obvious to most that if the individual had a problem with the college, he should not have bought the house next door. It would have been a different story had he owned the home prior to the college being built.

That is the way it is with modifying child support. If your actions are voluntary then you do not have the right to seek a modification to your benefit. You can not quit a job and say I can not afford that much child support. You can not start a new family and expect the father of your first child to increase his support based upon your loss of income while you are at home caring for a newborn.

There must be a material change of circumstances to modify a court order. That change of circumstances can not be voluntary acts that you then want to use to affect somebody else.

The responsibility of your children comes before benefiting yourself.

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