If you're the father
If the courts grant legal custody, the custodian shouldn't have to pay child support.
You may have to pay child support to the one who has custody of your children.
Yes, if the father is not given custody he will be obligated to keep paying support to whomever the court awards custody or guardianship of the children.
You sue the person for child support. Just because you pay child support for one child does not mean you can not receive child support for the one you have custody of.
The child support amount would depend on the difference in income. Even sole custody fathers are ordered to pay child support.
yes
You pay child support until the judge says you do not have to pay.
Both parents are. The parent who does not have residential custody usually pay child support to the one who has residential custody to be used to pay for the child. Both have to pay for their child.
Given that the court has given custody to you, any deviation is in violation of the court order. Typically at 18 they are no longer a minor and can choose where to live. Your child support payments are dependant upon the court order. Her choice of living arrangements after 18 will not obligate you to pay child support. You/she/mother could petition the court to change the custody and support arrangements.
Truancy and child support are two separate issues. You must continue to pay child support, however you can file for custody modification either by seeking custody or increasing custody, thus reducing your child support obligation, if you can prove the mother is not acting in the best interests of the child by enabling his or he truancy.
Custody (in theory at least) is based on the child's best interest. "So you don't have to pay child support" is not going to strike any judge as an argument in the child's best interest.
yes...if the father has custody of the child or children then a woman has to pay child support just like a man.