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Child Support

Get help here on any issues around payment and non-payment of child support. Custody and visitation rights issues are legally separate from support and have their own topic. Be advised that many answers here apply only to the United States and may not apply anywhere else.

8,359 Questions

Does a child have a say if both parents are looking for custody of them?

Only Indiana and Texas has laws setting out a specific age at which a child can make a choice the court is required to abide by, and even than there are some limitations. With those states, it is age 14. In all other states, the general rule of thumb is that a 12 year old can express and opinion, however the judge is under not legal obligation to consider, or even hear it. In either case, a motion to the court must be filed for a determination to be made. However, the child should be informed that there are alternatives to choosing to live with just one parent. The child should also be advised they can express a choice that they remain in one home and each parent can live with them for a designated period of time, than switch. This is called Bird Nest Custody. Check link below for more info.

If you have joint custody of your children do you have to pay child support while they spend the summer with you in NY?

This is an issue which should have been addressed in the original support agreement. If there is no stipulation as to how support should be administered when the children are with you. You are still obligated. You can however, have the order modified to read, that when you have physical custody the set payments at that particular time be used for the children's benefit.

In Kentucky can a parent petition the courts to have an uncontrollable minor child removed from the home?

my grand daughter has been living with me for about 4 months and every weekend now every weekend she will not come home until Sunday ? How can I get a uncontrollable warrant?

I am the childs father i want to file a protection order to keep my sons mothers boyfriend who did 7 years in a federal prison for child pornagrghy away from my son what protection order do i file?

You've asked this question and it has been answered. Simply stated, unless the boyfriend has committed a new crime, the courts will not help you. You have no recourse.

You can try to petition for custody, but that is likely to blow up in your face--as you didn't seem to get custody in the first place.

Best course of action, get to know the guy, and remain observant of any evidence of a new crime--and wary not to commit one yourself in the process.

I been asked to pay child support for a son that I am not on the birth certificate do i still have to pay the child support?

You will have to pay child support only after paternity has been established either by presumption (i.e., you two were married at the time), your acknowledgment or genetic testing.

Do you still have to pay childsupport if the child graduates homeschool early in Texas?

Yes, child support continues until the age of majority, regardless of the child's high school standing.

Can you sign off your rights in the state of Wisconsin to your child?

Yes, but ordinarily this happens with the court's blessing and preparatory to an adoption.

In California if your child support ends when your child turned 18 and graduated from HS- can the custodial parent extend payment for college?

It would require a motion to the court at which you would be given a chance to respond. If approved, the money should go directly to the child, and if the child lives away from the custodial parent's home, than that parent should also be required to pay their part. see links below

Do you still pay child support if a child is removed from your custody and then adopted out?

If the child is in foster care you pay but not if the child is adopted. Then the child have new parents who are responsible for him/her.

Does social security benefits replace child support?

My ex husband was in an accident and has not paid child support for 27 months. He is now drawing SS benefits which my child just started to receive benefits, his step-child is receiving the other half of the benefits. However, these benefits are less than what he was paying in child support

Can you take your own child from child services if you are the only one that has legal guardianship over the child?

It sounds as if child protective services has guardianship and, if so, you can't simply take your child back from them.

Does it look bad on a mother for not trying to take a father of her baby to court?

Well it's not for you, it's for your child. So seeing it that way, yes.

But, most don't because they do not want to lose any control over the child to a man. Also, she can wait until the child is almost 18, than file a retroactive order for child support for 2-18 years worth, depending on the state.

However. just because he pays childsupport does not mean you will loose control. If he is a lousy parent he will have no right to your child but if he is good your child has the right to benefit from having a dad. If you wait 18 years your child will miss out. And waiting 18 years to ask someone to cough up that kind of money just sounds vendictive since most likely he will not have that lying around.

A child is born and the guy who signs the birth certificate is not the biological father can the mother go after the real father twelve years later for him to take a blood test and pay child support?

Up to 18 years later. In a Michigan case, the newly divorced woman was granted 14 years retroactive against the bio dad who was age 12 she had sex with him. The statute of limitations on rape had run out.

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Could a narcissist get violent and physically harm me if he is pushed to the limit in court and he is proven a liar and gets supervised visitation of his child?

Your questions are too personal, leading and unanswerable. We don't have all the facts. The world doesn't know what you mean by narcissistic. By definition it means merely that he is self-centered, self-preoccupied and admires himself. That is not a crime.

Paying child support for 1 kid and you have 2 other kids to support?

In general, the oldest child's right to support is not affected by the existence of younger children.

How often are you supposed to receive child support payments?

Generally, child support payments coincide with the frequency that the obligor receives income. How quickly the obligee receives those payments is a function of how efficient the payor of income is in forwarding them to the State and how efficient the State is in distributing them.

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