Category Archives: Child Support
How Does a Work Vehicle Affect Your Alimony and Child Support Obligations?
All couples who get divorced must accurately represent their assets, income, and expenses. Sometimes valuing your assets is a straightforward matter and the parties can agree on how to distribute them in a Marital Settlement Agreement. When the parties disagree and the court has to intervene to determine equitable distribution of marital property, sometimes… Read More »
Co-Parenting Without Child Support Payments: Is It Really Possible?
Have you ever driven past the luxurious hotels of South Beach or glimpsed the Star Island mansions as you took an exit off of I-95 and wondered how different life must be for the one percent? It is true that the details of high net worth divorce often turn out differently than they do… Read More »
Child Support Obligations and Contempt of Court in South Florida
If you still have your job but your employer has reduced your salary for an open-ended but temporary period as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, you are one of the lucky ones. Almost every family that created a parenting plan in or before 2019 has found that the circumstances in 2020 make it… Read More »
Civil Contempt and Due Process in Florida Child Support Disputes
If a court has ever ordered you to pay child support, you know that the law takes a parent’s responsibility to support his or her children financially while they are minors very seriously. For example, past due child support payments were virtually the only reason that the federal government permitted garnishment of anyone’s coronavirus… Read More »
If You Continue to Pay for Your Young Adult Son or Daughter’s Healthcare, Is Your Ex-Spouse Obligated to Share the Cost?
Every parent knows that the odds are stacked against children being able to be completely financially independent of their parents as soon as they turn eighteen. While some young adults make it their priority to make a clean break from their parents’ rules and their parents’ financial support as soon as they turn eighteen,… Read More »
Divorce and the High-Income Stay-at-Home Dad
Life is expensive, so expensive that, unless you write out a budget and keep written records of all your transactions, you might not even realize how much you spend. Most married couples raising young children have dual income households. When you are unhappily married but not seriously considering divorce, it is easy to construct… Read More »
If You Owe Past Due Child Support, Your Coronavirus Stimulus Check Could Go Straight to Your Ex
Couples who do not have children together can often make a clean break after their divorce, unless they were married for many years or their marital property is very valuable. If you and your ex-spouse have children together, your disagreements with your ex about how much money is required to meet your children’s basic… Read More »
Child Support and Children’s Special Educational Needs
Many children with special needs flourish when they receive appropriate support from teachers, therapists, and family. Divorce is disruptive to all children, but it is even more disruptive to children whose special developmental or medical needs make a change to their routine even more of a challenge than such a change would represent to… Read More »
If You Owe Back Child Support, Filing for Bankruptcy Is Not the Solution
Financial hardship has become to rule rather than the exception for many Americans, especially those with minor children. As you reduce your spending to deal with life in the gig economy, you might find yourself eliminating expenses you once considered a necessity. You bring a granola bar and a thermos of coffee to work,… Read More »
How to Get Out of Paying Child Support Without Breaking Any Rules
The days leading up to Valentine’s day are prime time for cynical Google search queries, like “love stinks,” “women are gold diggers,” and “men are scum.” When you are a parent, though, you can’t afford just to channel your self-pity into Google searches. Even your most misanthropic search engine adventures are at least slightly… Read More »
