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I beg to differ. My ex, who violated our marriage vows numerous times, did exactly this. He found a good lawyer who convinced the judge to reduce his already meager child support payment to zero.

BULLSH1T! No judge ever lowers it to zero! They DO NOT have the discretion to do so. Unless you don't live in the US.

BULLSH1T! No judge ever lowers it to zero! They DO NOT have the discretion to do so. Unless you don't live in the US.

Are you calling me a liar? Are you telling me that my daughters and I did not go through what we did?

We got zip, zilch, zero, NOTHING!

And Madam...this happened in Illinois.

I have seen a judges (plural) reduce support to zero on more than one occasion. When a child has been proven to not be the fathers during the course of a divorce. When the mother was not spending child support money on the child. (ie recieved money for private school and went on cruise, said needed daycare money but child was left with relatives for free.) Child was from previous marriage and wife falsly testified it was the product of current marriage in order to obtain temporary support.

BTW legally the support payments belong to the child not the custodial parent. This is so it can never be waived. When an unmarried woman gets knocked up and tells the fool she is keeping it but she wants no money from him, it is legally meaningless. Even if HER waiver is signed, notorized, and witnessed by 100 religious clerics.