Physical custody is based upon your ability to provide for your child's emotional, physical, mental and financial needs. Failure to financially provide for the child when you are the noncustodial parent shows unwillingness or inability to provide financially for him/her.
If you are a parent of a child, then you would provide support for the child, even if you do not have custody.
The child support amount would depend on the difference in income. Even sole custody fathers are ordered to pay child support.
Even sole custody fathers can be ordered to pay child support, when they earn more than the mother. see links
This is interpretive as even sole custody fathers can be obligated to pay.
If the child is not with them at all, the child support should go to the one who have custody of the child. If they share custody they have to agree on who will pay support and who will take the responsibility and see to that the child have everything he needs. If the parents can not agree the court will decide.
Who is in jail? If the child is in jail, they have custody. If the adult is in jail, they should never get custody. If the spouse is in jail they should not get custody. Jail would have no bearing on the time of custody, just who should be able to even see the child.
Filing for child support has no bearing on the issue of custody. Custody is decided on the basis of the welfare of the child. To get custody of a child, the father would have to demonstrate that he would do a better job as parent. I will add that even if you do need financial assistance, that does not in any way suggest that you are not a good mother. Those are separate issues.
Yes, this is an overal cost load for your portion of the child's care. It is independent of where the child is unless both parties agree to changes. It also depends on what kind of custody you're talking about, physical of legal? Legal custody has nothing to do with child support If you have 50/50 physical custody, that's way different Child support may not even be exchanged. It all depends on how much money is made by BOTH parents.
Yes, even if the mother never did.
Yes. He would have to petition the court for custody.
Child support laws vary from country to country, state to state etc. Quite often, even in a shared custody arrangement, the parent that earns more money may pay some child support to the other parent to equal out the living standards.
No, because it is considered bribing, and even if you could, I doubt a parent would give up a child for money if they are suing or have custody in the first place. If you want said child, you can sue for custody of the child. If you cannot gain custody, then the next best thing to do is sue for visitation.It's not legal to pay a parent to relinquish custody of a child in any state! But if the parent in question has a child support award, he or she will be free of paying child support or being in any way responsible for the child from that day forward.