I am 24 and my mother opened a child support case when I was around 16 so he owes back support. My father paid her $200 a month, not through the system, but to her, they agreed on this amount. He paid until I was 21. He still owes more. My situation is my mom never took care of me either, used it all on drugs. Then after I turned 18 she told me if I went to school and graduated she would me the monthly payments. Well I did go to school and graduate but around that time she was sleeping with my dad again (while married to my step father) and decided since they had there fling going on that he didn't have to pay anymore child support. I don't think it's ever been cancelled in the system it was just something they did. I live in California and I support myself. He makes over $10,000 a month and anytime I call for help he won't give me a dime. Can I sue him for the child support he still owes? I have read that I can. and don't say that money was for my mom for providing for me because she hardly did that. And child support is for the child, the child has the right to be provided for by both parents so the money should be mine since I'm grown and on my own right? By the way I was never with him at all during any of my life. I would get a birthday card maybe every 5 years if that.
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No, in order for a lawsuit for child support arrearages to be valid the support order needs to have been in affect before the child reached the age of majority.
Yes, its child support. If the money is not used to support the child then its being misused. Alimony would be to support you. If the father is looking after the child, then he should not be paying child support to the mother - she doesn't have the cost of looking after the child at that time. In fact, the mother may well be in a position to send chilod support to the father - it goes both ways and she is responsible for the child just as much as the father is.
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Back support is owed the obligee parent, however any continuing support can go to the child.
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Yes, the Supreme Court ruled back child support is a protection of equal rights, so see an attorney or call your local court.
Yes. There is no statute of limitations on collecting past-due child support. Keep in mind that he might not have any money.
The parents have to go back to court to file a modification of the custody order. They should also terminate any child support order that obligates the father to pay child support
Yes, you can.
Child support accrues from the moment the support order is issued, not from the birth of the child.
You are not the one to get child support all over again, but the man who has been paying wrongly all these year is entitled to get his money back from your biological father. He have to sue him for that. You have been paid for and supported already. If you are not of legal age yet and is entitled to child support you have to have a DNA test or something proving he is your biological father so you can take him to court so he can pay for you the years left until you are an adult.