Pls help model this situation

[jhw]

Hi Guys, please can you help me with this.  Normal set of domestic accounts
but my stepdaughter's father pays child support + expenses for her horse. 
When I get a cheque from him it's easy enough - I transact Income:Other to
Assets:Checking.  But say I pay $100 for horse shoes: I want to keep track
of the fact he owes me the money but can't figure out how to do it.  I tried
an Accounts/Receivable type of account but this still expects a balancing
transaction: what's the other account? Is it just Imbalance?

I have tried Income:other:owing and Income:other:paid with a -ve amount in
the former and a +ve in the latter but gnucash sums the absolute values here
which seems odd.   When I have a -ve expense (such as -$20 in
expenses:clothing for a refund), the signs are respected when the expenses
are totalled, as I would expect.  

Tearing my hair out a bit, and don't want to supplement my .gnucash with
some post-it notes, so any advice or suggestion would be very welcome. 
Thanks in advance...
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