Category Archives: Child Support
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 »
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 »