Hello everyone,

I would like to request any references or information that you would like to share that may be useful in our situation.

My husband has 2 teenage children from his first marriage that he pays child support for in the amount of $604.00 per month. This was ordered in his divorce decree in 2000.

He also has a 5 year old child by a woman who was legally married and still involved with her husband. However, my husband says that he was unaware of this until after the child was born.

There was a paternity test taken after the child was born in 2004. However, since the woman was still married child support did not allow her to file for child support at that time due to the presumable parentage law.

When the woman divorced she filed child support and the courts forced my husband to pay $720 per month for the child and $180 in arrearage, which is $900.00 per month for one child. But the courts are basing his child support on an amount that he made in 2004. Since that time he has not made nearly that amount but the court refuses to correct it. And this is causing his child support payments to be too much for one child and the court does not want to give him adequate credit for the other two children even though child support has been court ordered in the divorce decree.

Now, here's the challenge. Since we cannot afford an attorney due to all this child support he is paying. I am helping him file as a pro se litigant in Jackson TN Appeals Court. I have been researching cases for our "Table of Authorities" but have not been able to find one case that is in favor of the father where arrearages were either decreased or removed due to the mother lying under oath in court. Or where the child has been given to the father because of the mother's proven negligence, etc.

I have found cases that look good from the beginning and by the time you get to the end of the document they have stuck it to the man.

I have been on may law websites and doing general searches with no favorable results. I need to find something within the next couple of days before our briefing is due to be sent to the court.

If anyone can provide any information, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,