SS16 is a straight A student, highly driven, Starting Varsity hockey goalie and has practice 5-6 days a week at 4:30 am, then again after school 2 hour practice, followed by an hour of lifting, games every week, plus he trains downtown Minneapolis with an NHL goalie, on top of coaching little kids at a goalie training company.
There's a significant need to get him a car because the commitments to sports make it hard on BM, DH, and me since I'm the one usually taking him to morning practices.
Court paperwork states split vehicle and expenses 50%.
BM has an old Altima that she wants to give him and have us pay her for half the cost of that car. She also thinks that we will pay half of her car insurance also,but after speaking to the ins company that stated MN is a non-excluded driver state and therefore he needs to be on both of our car insurance since he lives half time at each address and has access too all vehicles.
DH wants to give him my truck to drive bc it's 4wd and we live in the country, and BM lives even deeper in the country 20miles from school and he's concerned about our terrible winters and wants him in a safer car.
She refuses bc she thinks she'll have to pay higher insurance, and she really was counting on us paying her for half of this older car she hasn't driven in 2 years. My truck is 6 years old but is still worth about 25k but it's got a 100mile warranty and only 30k miles. We want it to last him at least a couple years past college. But it's also not being used as my husband has q company truck and I'm driving his truck.
She's very very weird with money and buying something new is likely out of the questionbut she doesn't seem concerned about the winter driving like we are because he'll be driving ss11 to school and lacrosse practice. We went them to be safe as possible.
Thoughts? How did you handled this issue? Is there a solution? We aren't wanting to fight this if she doesn't allow him to drive our truck we'll likely just relent and pay her for her car. But I'm hoping someone might have another solution or advice! Tia
There's a significant need to get him a car because the commitments to sports make it hard on BM, DH, and me since I'm the one usually taking him to morning practices.
Court paperwork states split vehicle and expenses 50%.
BM has an old Altima that she wants to give him and have us pay her for half the cost of that car. She also thinks that we will pay half of her car insurance also,but after speaking to the ins company that stated MN is a non-excluded driver state and therefore he needs to be on both of our car insurance since he lives half time at each address and has access too all vehicles.
DH wants to give him my truck to drive bc it's 4wd and we live in the country, and BM lives even deeper in the country 20miles from school and he's concerned about our terrible winters and wants him in a safer car.
She refuses bc she thinks she'll have to pay higher insurance, and she really was counting on us paying her for half of this older car she hasn't driven in 2 years. My truck is 6 years old but is still worth about 25k but it's got a 100mile warranty and only 30k miles. We want it to last him at least a couple years past college. But it's also not being used as my husband has q company truck and I'm driving his truck.
She's very very weird with money and buying something new is likely out of the questionbut she doesn't seem concerned about the winter driving like we are because he'll be driving ss11 to school and lacrosse practice. We went them to be safe as possible.
Thoughts? How did you handled this issue? Is there a solution? We aren't wanting to fight this if she doesn't allow him to drive our truck we'll likely just relent and pay her for her car. But I'm hoping someone might have another solution or advice! Tia