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Can your parents legally spend your child support money on themselves?
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If a minor child is being abused or neglected, the obligated parent paying the child support can (and should) request an investigation by the state's department of child protective services. The court does not monitor the use of child support monies if the child has not been neglected, abused or is living in an environment which could be considered unsuitable. For example, if the minor child is not receiving necessities, food, clothing, medical care, education, and so forth; and it can be proven that the custodial parent used the support money for drugs, gambling, alcohol, etc. there could be grounds for prosecution of that individual and the minor would in all likelihood be made a "ward of the state".
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Are Parents legal responsibility for college education?
If the child is still living in their parents house - yes. If the child is living in their own place - no. Whilst the child is living with their parents - the parents are legally responsible for the child's education costs. A college education is not a mandatory parental responsibility like room and board and primary and secondary (high school) education. Therefore parents are not legally required to sponsor a child's college education. Parents are legally responsible for college education costs only if they were involved in the college enrollment and signed forms committing themselves to be responsible for the college tuition and other costs.
If you are legally married to an absentee spouse but have a child by another man and paternity has been established is the father of the child obligated to pay child support?
Parents of minor children are legally required to support said child/children regardless of the circumstances surrounding the matter. The biological father of the child in question must be financially responsible for his child according to the laws and ruling of the court of the state in which the child is a resident.
What if the mother of the child fied for child support in Georgia and the father lives in New york and he wanted to legitimize the child after the child support court order do He have to go to Georgia?
Yes. However, if the parents are not married the Georgia court will establish paternity legally in order to issue a child support order. If that's where the mother and child live and mother filed there, that court will have jurisdiction. The father should cooperate with the DNA testing to establish paternity.Yes. However, if the parents are not married the Georgia court will establish paternity legally in order to issue a child support order. If that's where the mother and child live and mother filed there, that court will have jurisdiction. The father should cooperate with the DNA testing to establish paternity.Yes. However, if the parents are not married the Georgia court will establish paternity legally in order to issue a child support order. If that's where the mother and child live and mother filed there, that court will have jurisdiction. The father should cooperate with the DNA testing to establish paternity.Yes. However, if the parents are not married the Georgia court will establish paternity legally in order to issue a child support order. If that's where the mother and child live and mother filed there, that court will have jurisdiction. The father should cooperate with the DNA testing to establish paternity.
Can the mother move with the child if the father and her agree on child support amond themselfves?
By law, child support belongs to the child. Therefore, parents cannot agree between themselves to waive or reduce child support, either past-due or current. The venue that issued the order must approve any such agreement.
How big or small can a room be in a noncustodial parents house be legally?
In 20 years, I've never seen a requirement as most non-parents paying child support are struggling to even have a place to live.
Can child support be terminated if child is removed from custodial parents home due to abuse?
Yes the child support can be revoked since the parent receiving support is no longer legally supporting the child
Do father have to pay child support if child lives on their own with boyfriend?
Usually it deppends on the state that you live in and their laws. In the state that i live in, at the age of 17 the child can move out of the families household and the parents still have to pay for the child's living. that is only if the parents sign a paper so that the child is legally responsible for themselves.
Are father and stepmom responsible for child support?
The biological parent is legally responsible for paying child support. A step parent is not legally responsible for paying child support.The biological parent is legally responsible for paying child support. A step parent is not legally responsible for paying child support.The biological parent is legally responsible for paying child support. A step parent is not legally responsible for paying child support.The biological parent is legally responsible for paying child support. A step parent is not legally responsible for paying child support.
Does a father still have to pay child support if the child has a baby before the age of 18?
Yes. It is the parents responsibility to provide support to a child until they are 18, or 19 and in school. If that child has given birth it is of no consequence in terms of child support unless the child was legally emancipated. Having a baby does not legally emancipate a minor.
Are you required to pay child support if you can't see your child?
Yes, child support and visitation and/or custodial matters are two completely different legal matters. All parents are legally required to financially support their minor biological or legally adopted children regardless of the circumstances.
What is the adult child's financial responsibility for a parent?
Parents don't have legal responsibility for someone 18 years old, unless they have legally recognized diminished capacity. They are legally adults now, so they can do whatever they want and take the consequences themselves.
What age is a child with an disabilities legally an adult?
An exception to the rule that parents' duty to support their children ends at the children's majority occurs when the child is disabled. In cases where the child is disabled, mentally or physically, and therefore unable to support himself/herself upon reaching the age of majority most states have adopted the rule that parents have a duty to support their adult disabled children. Most often, courts define "disability" in economic terms, i.e., the inability of the adult disabled child to adequately care for himself/herself by earning a living by reason of mental or physical infirmity. States differ as to whether support for an adult disabled child is determined by the state's child support guidelines or by the needs of the child as balanced by the parents' ability to provide support. In the case the child CAN support themselves then they'd be legally an adult at their states normal age of majority which is generally 18.
In New Jersey can a wife's wages be garnished for child support owed by her husband?
No, only biological parents or parents who have legally adopted a minor child are responsible for the financial support of that child/children.
Can the parents agree on a child support amount and submit to the Office of Child Support?
Most countries do allow an agreement to be written up between parents detailing their own child support amounts. Please be aware that this should be legally done and shown to child support so that it is not held against someone in the case of your relationship turning sour.
Who pays child support and why?
In the US, parents are legally responsible for their children to at least age 18 and sometimes much longer, depending on the laws of the State in which the child resides and whether the child is severely handicapped. Absent parents may be ordered to pay support.
Child is not legally yours but lived with you for almoist 2 years are you due support from parents?
Yes, but you need to file a child in need of care motion.
Who invented child support?
There was no "inventor" of child support. Parents have been held legally responsible for their children for centuries - probably since children were invented. Otherwise, the community and/or the State ends up supporting the child.
