answer:How do you know that the child doesn’t need an iPad? Many schools now require students to be plugged-in, with work assignments going back and forth electronically. I don’t agree with this – in fact, I think that children learned more, and performed better, with the simplicity of chalkboards and composition books – but that’s the way it is in many places. Even if the iPad’s a luxury, not a necessity, is it so awful for the child to have some nice things? You don’t dispute that the money was spent on “her own iPad,” so you know that the money’s being used as intended – for the child’s benefit. The custodial parent didn’t illegally and unethically spend the funds on himself/herself. If the noncustodial parent can demonstrate that the iPad is excessive, unnecessary, a waste of child support, and an unfair burden on finances, he/she can go back to court and ask to have the payments reduced.