Actress Tori Spelling, the famous daughter of TV legend Aaron Spelling, has been beset by financial problems for years due to a combination of a lavish lifestyle, a chronically unemployed spouse, five young children under the age of 11 and a variety of failed...
Child Support
What have courts done to help with child support nonpayment?
Nonpayment of child support is one of the biggest hurdles that a lot of parents face. For those not getting payment, it can be impossible to make ends meet financially. For those not paying the proper amount, there are many looming ramifications, from a potential...
The ‘gig’ economy makes it harder to collect child support
More and more people are working as independent contractors -- or significantly supplementing their income through what is becoming known as the "gig" economy. People take all sorts of jobs online and off -- tutoring students for the SATs, giving music lessons,...
Why does a parent become a deadbeat dad or mom?
Why do some parents choose not to pay child support? It certainly isn't a wise choice to go against a judge's order, and the penalties can range from having wages garnished and tax returns grabbed to being jailed for contempt of court. Here are some of the main...
Does your child need extra financial support this fall?
Back-to-school season is starting and a lot of parents are still frantically trying to fill their school shopping lists. If you're the non-custodial parent, you probably figure that's what your child support is for, right? Well, not exactly. The support you pay is...
Child support and incarceration: Important facts to know
What happens to your child support obligation when you're incarcerated? This is something that confuses a lot of people -- and can lead to serious additional complications that can make it harder to get back on your feet once you've served your sentence unless you...
Child support and the disabled adult child: What to know
One of the most common assumptions people make is that child support automatically stops at a child's eighteenth birthday. There are a number of reasons, however, that this might not be what happens in your case. In California, one major reason that support might not...
Child support and extracurricular activities: What to know
Divorced parents often have a misconception about child support: it's just for the basics necessities. It isn't. Sure, regular expenses used to calculate the percentage of support each parent has to provide will include the basics: food, shelter and clothing. However,...
The disabled child: Taking the long-term approach to support
If your child is facing a severe, lifelong disability, that's a factor that should be considered in any child support agreement for several different reasons. 1. Child care may be harder to arrange and more expensive. Even if you have things arranged so that you can...
Child support: Working together for the good of the children
As a long-standing family law firm serving Livermore and Bay Area families, we have watched many parents struggle with child support issues. Most of the time, both parents want to do right by their children, but feelings of inequity or financial betrayal may muddy the...