I pay my child support voluntarily through an allotment to the mothers bank account so it can be tracked, when I get back from Iraq we will be getting the child support court ordered though so we will know exactly how much Im supposed to be paying, does anybody know if the money Im paying now will be credited toward how much I have to pay if I have been paying too much? For example, I pay 400 per month right now for one child for 10 months, thats 4000 bucks, what if we go to court and they say i onlay have to pay 200 per month, does that mean that i am paid up for the next ten months since I had been paying twice as much as I should have been??