I am a single 20 year old mother and I am 7 months pregnant, who is currently trying to come up with a way to afford a divorce because my husband has been cheating on me since I was 4.5 months pregnant and now is engaged & expecting a baby with the other woman and stuck with me with over $1500 worth of bills. I am currently unemployed but looking for a job, don’t qualify for temporary cash assistance, and have been on a waiting list for SSI for 3 years now but don’t think I can wait any longer because I only have $400 income per month. Right now I live at my moms old house rent free in exchange for raising my 16 year old sister since she got remarried and her new husband wants nothing to do with us. I have no one to talk to because my mom is not there at all emotionally for us and I don’t really have any family members that have anything to do with us. I want to go out and do something with my life and I want to move an hour away from here to Panama City (Florida), and try to go to college, get a decent job, and our own house or apartment but I’m not sure where to begin. I’m not sure I can even get any single mother grants because I am technically still married and I just can’t afford a divorce and he won’t pay for anything even though he has the money to do it and I know a lot of people are going to say ‘get an attorney’, but I can’t just pull money out of thin air. Also, I lived with my mom all year last year but my ex claimed my son (from a previous relationship) on his income taxes and ended up getting $4500 back and I knew about this but I didn’t sign anything although I was at the h&r block office with him and my mom wants to audit him but can I get in trouble for this too? I don’t know what to do or where to begin, all I know is that I need to get away from here ASAP. I need to figure out how to pay for college, get a decent job, find housing, and find daycare but where do I even begin? Its all so overwhelming.
I get child support for my firstborn which is the $400 but the new baby isn’t born yet so therefore I can’t file for child support yet.