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General Child Support Questions
What is child support?
What is a child support order?
Who can be ordered to pay it?
How is the amount of child support determined?
What income items do typical formulas cover?
How do you show income?
What other items do formulas consider?
How do child care costs get factored in?
How long must child support be paid?
Can a parent limit the amount of future child support that is to be paid to the other (custodial) parent?
Can one parent be ordered to pay child support even if s/he never married the other (custodial) parent?
When can a child support order be changed or modified?
Obligor and obligee - which one is which?
What if the obligee parent does not spend any money on the child?
What efforts can be taken to collect child support from the parent who does not pay?
What other collection remedies are available?
If the obligor parent doesn't pay, can visitation be stopped?
My income dropped dramatically when I was laid off my job and cannot make my child support payments. Is there any way I can lower the payments?
I am a stepparent. Do I have an obligation to support the children from my wife’s previous marriage?
Is child support suspended during summer vacations with the noncustodial parent?
What about paying for college or private school expenses?
What effect does bankruptcy have on child support?
After a child has been raised, is the parent who raised them able to sue for back child support?
What are the tax consequences of child support?
What is the parent locator service?
I am the biological father of an illegitimate child born to a married woman who had agreed to abort the child. Do I have to pay support when she reneged on our agreement?
My wife is delinquent on her court-ordered medical payments for our child. Can I sue her for the delinquent funds in small claims court?
What about allocation of standard of living?
I'm marrying a man who has children from a previous marriage. He regularly pays his child support. Since I earn more than my fiance, we want to protect my income from any future increase in support payments should the ex- seek more. What are our options?
What is child support used for?
Do I need to use an attorney to do the paperwork for releasing a consenting father of his parental rights?
My husband and I have decided to use artificial insemination to have a child. The donor will not be obligated to support the child. Is there some type of documentation so that this type of arrangement can be made permanent?
Bankruptcy
What effect does bankruptcy have on child support?
Child support calculation
What is child support used for?
How is the amount of child support determined?
What income items do typical formulas cover?
How do you show income?
What other items do formulas consider?
How do child care costs get factored in?
Can a parent limit the amount of future child support that is to be paid to the other (custodial) parent?
When can a child support order be changed or modified?
Obligor and obligee - which one is which?
What about allocation of standard of living?
How do stock options impact alimony, separate maintainance and child support?
College/private school
What about paying for college or private school expenses?
Failure to pay child support
What is a ‘support order’?
What efforts can be taken to collect child support from the parent who does not pay?
Obligor and obligee - which one is which?
What if the obligee parent does not spend any money on the child?
If the obligor parent doesn't pay, can visitation be stopped?
What other collection remedies are available?
After a child has been raised, is the parent who raised them able to sue for back child support?
In-vitro fertilization
My husband and I have decided to use artificial insemination to have a child. The donor will not be obligated to support the child. Is there some type of documentation so that this type of arrangement can be made permanent?
Legal help
Do I need to use an attorney to do the paperwork for releasing a consenting father of his parental rights?
Locating parent
What is the parent locator service?
Modification of child support
When can a child support order be changed or modified?
Obligor and obligee - which one is which?
Can a parent limit the amount of future child support that is to be paid to the other (custodial) parent?
My income dropped dramatically when I was laid off my job and cannot make my child support payments. Is there any way I can lower the payments?
Obtaining child support
How long must child support be paid?
Obligor and obligee - which one is which?
I am the biological father of an illegitimate child born to a married woman who had agreed to abort the child. Do I have to pay support when she reneged on our agreement?
My fiancé and I want to move out of the state for a better job. Do I have to inform the biological father of the pending move? We have no formal court order regarding child custody or support. He has not seen his daughter since birth, or contributed any money.
Paternity
Can one parent be ordered to pay child support even if s/he never married the other (custodial) parent?
Remarriage
I'm marrying a man who has children from a previous marriage. He regularly pays his child support. Since I earn more than my fiance, we want to protect my income from any future increase in support payments should the ex- seek more. What are our options?
Stepparents
I am a stepparent. Do I have an obligation to support the children from my wife’s previous marriage?
Summer vacations
Is child support suspended during summer vacations with the noncustodial parent?
Tax
What effect does marital status have on federal taxes?
What are the tax consequences of child support?
How are alimony and child support payments taxed?
How are support payments treated under federal income tax rules?
Vistation rights
If child support is not paid, must visitation be allowed?
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