Still waiting for explanation from the state

Glad to hear it's working out for you!
Once in awhile us men get lucky. Almost thirty years ago my 'ex' left when our kids were 7 and 2. She'd found a boyfriend at her work who, unknown to me at the time, got her into drugs. I tried for over a year to put the marriage back together for the sake of the kids but finally filed for divorce. She never contested it, never got a lawyer, and never showed up in court. I bought her out of the house for a low amount to offset a low child support payment from her to give her a break as I kept both kids. She never paid the low child support ($100 per month per kid) so I took her back to court. She cried a story to the female judge and got the child support lowered to $75 per kid per month. I tried to tell the judge that the kids ate more than that but to no avail.
Anyway, she still didn't pay the child support so I ended up having her wages garnished and she and her new husband's tax return money seized. Funny thing was, he knew how much they were getting back and had already gone out and spent it. She had Hell to pay from him once he found out neither the Federal or State return checks were coming his way and that she'd also lost part of her paycheck.