Category Archives: Child Support
Can Adults With Disabilities Get Child Support From Their Families?
Under most circumstances, child support obligations end when the child has both turned 18 and graduated from high school. Of course, children who become financially independent of their parents immediately upon graduating from high school are a rare exception to the rule. Most adults in their 20s and 30s depend on their parents financially… Read More »
Calculating Child Support When Everything Is in Flux
Even the most organized people find the chaos of a pending divorce overwhelming. You are trying to pay the bills for an entire family on one income. You are trying to build a relationship with your new partner’s parents, when, for the time being, your estranged spouse’s parents are still your in-laws. Perhaps you… Read More »
Do Your Child Support Obligations Change If You Trade in Your Entrepreneurship Dreams for a 9 to 5?
Entrepreneurship can be rough on marriages. You might think of your ex-spouse’s business venture as the homewrecker who stole your ex’s heart. You might even blame certain social media influencers for whispering lies into your ex’s ears, promising him that he would be rich if he would only quit his job and spend money… Read More »
Coping With Unrealistic Imputed Income Amounts
The Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun, who reigned from 813 until 833, was famous for funding scientific activity, to the point that his capital city, Baghdad, was known as the scientific capital of the world, due to his patronage of mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. One of his court astronomers, Musa ibn Shakir, left a sizable inheritance… Read More »
What Happens to Child Support Obligations When Stepparents Enter the Picture?
To an optimist, remarriage means a feeling of resolution, a new normal. Now, instead of being a broken family, your children are part of a blended family. You imagine the future, when your child introduces both sets of his or her parents at his or her wedding. The axiom that every family is unique… Read More »
Coping With Summer Co-Parenting Conflict
For kids, summer vacation is a welcome break, but for parents, it is a stressful disruption of your plans. Unless you are a teacher, your work schedule does not revolve around the school calendar; your responsibilities continue unabated, even as your kids require transportation to summer camps so far away that they make you… Read More »
Can Co-Parenting Apps Help You Manage Conflict With Your Ex-Spouse?
The couples who are celebrating their divorce anniversary together, clinking their champagne glasses on Instagram like they did in their wedding photo aren’t telling you the whole truth; they may be smiling for the camera, but they have complicated feelings that don’t come across on social media. The ones who get sloppy drunk with… Read More »
What Happens to Your Child Support Obligations If You Become Disabled?
Unlike parenting plans, which are based on the parents’ mutually agreed upon preferences or on a judge’s decision about the best interests of the children, child support obligations come down to a mathematical formula. The numbers that go into the formula are the number of overnights per year the children spend with each parent… Read More »
What Legal Rights Do Stay-at-Home Girlfriends Have?
A marriage certificate is not what defines a family. Unmarried couples have acted as family units throughout much of human history, and some jurisdictions, although not Florida, even recognize common law marriage. Some couples even choose not to get legally married simply because their own parents’ experiences have shown them how ugly divorce can… Read More »
What Happens to the Support You Receive From Your Ex-Spouse If Your Fortunes Improve After Marriage?
Your friends and family will tell you that the first year after divorce is the hardest, and they are right. You feel the financial struggles most acutely, when you are managing the finances of more than half of your former family on less than half of your former family budget. This is especially the… Read More »