Category Archives: Child Support
When a Parent Owns the Business: How Florida Calculates Child Support for Self-Employed Income
A W-2 employee’s child support math is almost dull by comparison. Gross wages, a handful of standard deductions, and the number lands where it lands. A self-employed parent’s finances rarely behave that predictably, and the gap between what a tax return reports and what the business actually puts in someone’s pocket is where these… Read More »
Fix Your Child Support Problems Before You Try to Travel This Summer
Time passes more quickly in childhood than you realize; it is hard to believe how old your children already are, and how soon they will be adults, at which point you will have no legal authority to make them spend time with you. When you look at matters from this perspective, you are determined… Read More »
Sumter County Man Arrested for Nonpayment of Child Support
In February 2026, a 37-year-old man from Sumter County was driving on State Road 44 in The Villages when a police officer looked up his license plate and found out that his license was expired. This led the officer to pull the driver over for driving with a suspended license. His license had been… Read More »
Can You Waive Child Support Just to Keep the Peace?
If you ask people who have been married for decades how they have managed to resolve their conflicts, they will tell you that most conflicts do not end with a negotiated agreement. Usually, the parties simply run out of resources to fight, or else circumstances change so much that the issue of contention becomes… Read More »
Can You Change Your Alimony or Child Support Obligations Without Going Back to Court?
Family court documents such as marital settlement agreements, parenting plans, and child support orders are meant to be durable enough to prevent future litigation, but nothing is set in stone. Parenting plans are meant to last until the youngest child reaches adulthood, but parents sometimes need to modify them because of changes to the… Read More »
How Can You Be Sure That Your Ex-Spouse Is Using the Child Support Money in the Children’s Best Interest?
If you are not divorced and do not have children, you might wonder how people who love their children as much as they say they do are so angry about the fact that they have to pay child support. Yes, somewhere there are exes who were never married and don’t have a parenting plan…. Read More »
What Happens If Your Spouse Has a Child With an Affair Partner?
For every divorced couple, there is a couple that stayed married after confronting a similar obstacle to the one that caused the divorce couple to divorce. Disagreements over parenting are, by nature, self-limiting problems; children eventually age out of the issue over which the parents were at loggerheads. At your child’s graduation, ask whether… Read More »
Do Your Child Support Obligations Change If Your Financial Situation Improves?
Child support plans are durable enough that there are few events that automatically trigger a change. For example, your child support amount automatically changes if you formally change the parenting plan by mediated agreement or by court order. When the parenting plan stays the same but your financial situation changes, then your child support… Read More »
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 »