My Single Mom Life

I'm attempting to finish up the child support interrogations, I mean, interrogatories, for the child support hearing which has been bumped until July 31st.
I have to provide all of my personal finance records from 2005-2008, and I'm doing ok.
I have my debit card records which I copied from the Amscot site, they don't do paper bank statements because it's not a savings or checking account.
It's just a card. I deposit money into it so I don't have to carry cash, it's a pre-paid debit card.
So anyway, I copied all of those, I have my tax paperwork from the taxes I filed for 2007, the only year out of the 3 that I've been able to file taxes for so far.
SSDI isn't taxable income, so you don't file taxes on it, and last year was the only year that I earned an income and got 1099's for paid blogging.

Then I got to document question 7, and I'm like what? a business? It's not a business it's a blog, a diary, an online journal and I get paid to insert random contextual links for a couple of bucks each.
They want a copy of how many hits/visits I've had in the last year.
For what possible reason?
To see how many people read my blog?
What does that tell them?
I don't get paid per visit, or per hit, I don't get paid per click.
I get paid a couple of bucks to insert a link into a post.
That's it, but hey, they want it, I took a screen shot for them and will print it out and mail it to them so they can try and say I'm getting paid per hit.
I swear, his attorney is grasping at straws here.
I've been 100% honest about every single penny I've made.
I report it to all the proper authorities every month, it's well documented, so why he wants to see how many people visit my site is just ridiculous.

All I did was ask for my child support to be increased.
It's been at the set minimum wage since 1994, at $21.00 per week.
In the last 14 and a half years, I have not asked for it to be modified.
I have not ever asked him to help buy the school supplies every year, or the shoes they grow out of every 3 months, or the clothes they constantly need.
I have not ever asked him to help pay for all the school field trips over the years, the before and after school child care that they needed when they were younger.
I've never asked him to help pay for the cost of summer child care every summer when they were younger.
I've never asked him for a single thing until now, and his lawyer is treating me like I'm asking for the skin off of his back.

Whenever I've discussed the amount of child support the teens get with other custodial parents, they nearly faint.
The majority of them receive no less than $400 per month in child support.
When they figure out that the teens get $84.00 per month, they simply can't believe it.
I want a reasonable amount.
I want an amount that is fair to take care of the teens since he's never had to pay for anything they've needed over the last 14 and a half years, even though it was court ordered that both of us pay 50% of all of their needs.
I've never asked him, and he's certainly never offered or just sent money and said hey, here's some money to help buy their school supplies and clothes, shoes, or whatever they need.
I don't think I'm asking too much to have it increased after all of these years, and it's absolutely disgusting that they are asking me for all of these documents.
He is the non-custodial parent, it's his income that needs to be looked at and determined if an increase is possible.

It's even more disgusting that they are asking what I might inherit when my parents die.
I can tell you it won't be anything of any substantial value.
My parents are retired, my father is disabled, my mom's health isn't the greatest either, and they struggle to make ends meet every month just like I do.
I know why that's being asked.
During our marriage, my parents always welcomed him into their home, my mother always keeps the home nice and clean, she always made him feel like part of the family, and it looks as though they have money, but that's only because my mother takes impeccable care of what they do have.
Everything is in good shape, things are treasured and taken pride in, but they've had the same furniture for like 20 years now, same with everything else in their home.
What does he think?
That when my parents die I'll inherit the house and what little they do have?
Does he think my parents can take care of my children and I?
They can't, they have trouble paying their own bills, they sit in their house during the winter wearing layers of clothes and covered in blankets because the cost of heating oil is more than they can afford, so they keep the thermostat set around 60, just to conserve what they can afford to put in the barrel.
These questions are sick, and I'm absolutely disgusted that his scumbag attorney would even go there.