Nelson Said:

How is double health insurance coverage handled for child when parents are divorced?

We Answered:

The real issue is double coverage. My guess is that the new husband's insurance takes a back seat to the biological father's insurance due to the court decree. Call the doctor's office and ask them to check the issuance date on the insurance card and then call back insurance company number 2 with the date. Save the date because insurance company number 2 will probably want to update their records on a periodic basis. BTW, the subscriber's birth date has nothing to do with which is primary.

Cathy Said:

Mother does not use health insurance that father is providing for his children. What should happen?

We Answered:

The mother is committing fraud, in that she has obtained coverage without informing them that there was already insurance coverage. The only good reason to do this is so that welfare come after you for some or all of the cost. It will not matter by then whether or not you have coverage, only that you have deeper pockets.

A California father, who had custody since the divorce, was ordered to pay back welfare for what the mother collected for 7 years years by claiming she had custody and didn't know where he was.

Notify welfare AND the county prosecutor. Consider preparing a custody challenge, should she get arrested.

If you need help with that, go to Dads House in Yahoo Groups. There's an educational manual in the file section that can teach you what you need to know. The organization it came from is defunct due to attorneys that tried to take it over and make money from it.

Take the time to learn what you can and should do.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Dad…
http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
http://www.glennsacks.com
http://www.parentalalienation.org/