The father of my children and I separated a year ago. He is a great father and I'm not interested in sole custody. I'm

Hello! My name is Debra (formerly known as Legal Ease). Thank you for your question. I'm reviewing it now, and will post back again shortly.

I am sorry to hear that it sounds like you are in a bit of a difficult situation.

Are your incomes equal?

Just because you each of the children half the time may mean that you each have equal right to the CTV but what I think you both may be missing is a he still has to pay you child support.

Just because you both have the children 50% of the time does not relieve him of the obligation to pay child support because his income is much higher than yours. So what you have to do is figure out what child support he should be paying you and from that subtract what child support you should be paying him both on your incomes and then he will most assuredly owe you money.

Can you can each share in the CTB entitlement but your portion will be greater than his because your income is so much lower.

Does that make sense?

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No. That's not what I'm saying.

I am saying that you should be paid child support based on both of your gross annual incomes and you should figure out what that is and it can be varied every year and that you both have some claim to the CTB.

You do not need an agreement with respect to custody but given that you are not being treated fairly in terms of child support it seems to me that you should have an agreement in place both with respect to custody and with respect to child support