While prevailing opinion (with some exceptions) may be that when an equal parenting arrangement has been created via a child custody order or agreement between parents – each parent should be responsible for the financial responsibilities of the children in their own home. No money in the form of court ordered child support should change [...]
While we’re not particular fond of how child support is typically calculated, the failure for any accountability or oversight, and the sweeping severe punishments that are imposed on child support obligors regardless of circumstances – there are still situations where child support obligors willfully fail to pay child support. For those in such a situation [...]
We’ll come right out of the gate and tell folks that this is a huge no-no. Under no circumstances that are not written into an actual court order will the withholding of child support ever be looked upon favorably. And while custodial interference is among the top reasons why child support payors fail to pay [...]
Arizona is slated to increase child support levels dramatically – to levels far exceeding some of the worst states in the country. The details are laid out in a series of posts at Glenn Sacks’ website and covered well by Robert Franklin, Esq. It appears that the new guidelines up for consideration in the Arizona [...]
Seemingly impervious to economic conditions, be they poor or excellent, college costs and tuition continue to rise to astronomical levels. While more people than ever in recent history are suffering from job losses or reductions in employment, if you’re living in a divorce and child custody situation in the following states… Alabama, Connecticut, the District [...]
In an atrocious economy such as the one we’re all living with right now, don’t expect the divorce & custody industry to take a step back and do what it is right. No, in this economy, the state of Washington has just revised their child support statutes via the “ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1794″ which [...]
I happened upon an article which, at first thought, seemed to have good intentions. I became curious about what constituted a “child custody employment program.” My second thought was that it would be an expansion of the already bloated employment rolls of family court and its supporting and satellite staff and other benefactors. I was [...]
Something about which we’ve been unable to find any mainstream news reports comes this alarming information from F.R.A.M.E.D (Family Rights and Many Ending Discrimination). It seems that New Jersey Family Courts have been using a software program which contained a “bug” which apparently inflated some child support figures that were being calculated during proceedings. The [...]
In the article Shared Parenting vs. Child Support, we detailed the harsh realities that are the financial incentives that are a substantial roadblock to sweeping changes to child custody laws. The goal of such changes would be to implement a rebuttal presumption of shared custody. Legislatures and those in the divorce industry can deny it [...]
From the “hard to believe file” – (and the reality is that these attempts happen more often than you might think) – a Massachusetts appeals court judge dismissed the case of a woman seeking child support from an anonymous sperm donor. Sperm donors should be on high alert. Both the donor and the recipient remained [...]
