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It depends on where you live. In Australia, child support (known as MAINTENANCE) is paid at a percentage of non taxable income (just above net income). This is paid by whichever pareent does NOT have RESIDENCY of the child. Here CUSTODY refers to whatever parent/s have responsibility for the child's life (schooling, religion, welfare everything a parent normally does). Generally, both parents have shared CUSTODY and alternating RESIDENCY from 0:100 to 50:50. There is also a Governmental child assistance payment which is linked to the RESIDENTIAL patent's income and goes up or down according to what they earn. Here it is pretty fair. MAINTENANCE is not in any way linked to ACCESS or CUSTODY, a paying parent can also ruduce their payments by agreement or through other recognised financial assistance such as School fees, mortgage assistance, car or loan repayments etc. If the RESIDENTIAL parent moves away with the child, the paying parent can ruduce MAINTENANCE further due to the cost in ACCESS. What is usually unfair is the division of assets. Both personal and professional experience have shown that one parent may end up with 110% of assest and the other parent with -10%. This occurs when one parent hide superannuation money or other funds or makes a claim against funds which were not part of the relationship such as prior earnings. What is also unfair, it is generally assumed in Victoria, Australia that men cause the majority of violence in relationships. The opposite is the case here (professional facts and figures). More men are assaulted by women, however the men rarely make formal complaints. This is also reflected in culture where advertisements show women assaulting men (minor strike with rolling pin or verbal aggression). However laws are in place prohibiting advertisements where a man assaults, berates, yells at etc a woman.
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Do you need to be a legal guardian to get a DNA test?
Currently, there are no laws addressing this, however there is a move to create them to stop men paying child support checking to see if they are the father of the child.
How do you stop child support payments after graduating child?
That is dependent on your state laws. See link below on the laws in your state.First contact child support enforce on their procedures for modifying or discontinuing support. Take a woman with you to actually ask the question as sometimes they are less accommodating of men. If they have no procedure, you will need to file a motion to modify support with the court. This is similar to a normal modification of support, except you are asking to have support stopped. This can be done Pro Se.See links below.
Would a man be obligated to pay child support if the mother has previous children from other men that dont pay child support?
Yes. Your child is your financial responsibility, and the fact that others are forcing the state to support other children does not relieve you of your obligation. State laws govern the determination of the INDIVIDUAL financial needs of offspring, and you should advise your counsel if you feel your support is being inflated by the costs of maintaining children not your own.
You have been paying child support for a child that is not yours. Can you sue the real father of the child?
No. The biological father may not have known he was the father. Also, he did not file a petition for child support against you- the child's mother did. If you had any doubts you were the father, and if the child's mother was sexually active with other men at the time of conception, you could have requested a paternity test at the onset. You should consult with an attorney who can review your situation and explain your options under your state laws. You may have an action against the child's mother.No. The biological father may not have known he was the father. Also, he did not file a petition for child support against you- the child's mother did. If you had any doubts you were the father, and if the child's mother was sexually active with other men at the time of conception, you could have requested a paternity test at the onset. You should consult with an attorney who can review your situation and explain your options under your state laws. You may have an action against the child's mother.No. The biological father may not have known he was the father. Also, he did not file a petition for child support against you- the child's mother did. If you had any doubts you were the father, and if the child's mother was sexually active with other men at the time of conception, you could have requested a paternity test at the onset. You should consult with an attorney who can review your situation and explain your options under your state laws. You may have an action against the child's mother.No. The biological father may not have known he was the father. Also, he did not file a petition for child support against you- the child's mother did. If you had any doubts you were the father, and if the child's mother was sexually active with other men at the time of conception, you could have requested a paternity test at the onset. You should consult with an attorney who can review your situation and explain your options under your state laws. You may have an action against the child's mother.
Do you still need to pay child support if you get paid work men's comp?
Yes child support doesn't stop even if you are unemployed or have no income at all
Is there help for men who owe back child support?
to do what? see links below
When a men find out that he has a child of the age of 18 is he still responsible for payig child support?
techinally yes he ows back child support to the state for the bills the state covered for that single mom.
Why do men not pay child support?
Generally it's either selfishness, poverty, or both.
Why is child support and child custody so unfairly separated It's like saying you pay have to pay for the car but you don't get to drive it?
They're not "unfairly separated." You participated in the creation of a human being. It is now your responsibility to provide for that human being until it becomes an adult. Courts generally assign custody based on what they think is best for the child. If you disagree, you can always petition to have it changed. They assign child support based on the relative ability of the parents to pay. The economics and culture tends to work out that the mother gets custody and the father pays most of the child support. That's not "unfair", or at least it's no more "unfair" than the fact that women tend to be paid less than men doing the exact same job. If you're not complaining about the one, you don't get to complain about the other.
Can a child have two legal fathers if so do both pay child support?
Yes. Nebraska ordered five men to pay child support because the mother was able to avoid the paternity test by declaring it was an invasion of her privacy.
How many months behind in child support can you be before your rights are taken away?
none as they are separate issues and most child support arrears are on men who learned years later that they were a father, when ordered to pay back to the birth of the child.
A woman has 4 kids by 3 men and only wants child support for one does he have to pay?
Probably.
