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Short answer = Yes. The financial child support that you were ordered to pay by a court is not to be confused with issues of visitation and custody. Every parent has the legal obligation to support his or her children, and no matter what your ex-spouse is doing about letting you be with your kids, you still have to pay their child support.
With one narrow and rarely applicable exception, none of the 50 states lets a parent withhold child support because of a dispute over visitation such as you've described. The exception is this: when a parent with custody of the children disappears with them for a long enough time that no visitation is possible, some courts have ordered that the non-custodial parent's obligation to pay child support may be temporarily suspended. And a time period such as an extended vacation with the kids in your ex's hometown in another state would not be considered a valid disappearance, for instance.
The bottom line is that if your ex interferes with your court-ordered visitation rights, the appropriate thing to do is to go back to the judge to get your visitation rights enforced, and keep making your child support payments. Besides, withholding your financial support of your children will only lessen your reputation as a good parent.
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