Child Support

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

You cannot pay child support in California just by giving your ex cash and telling him or her that it's for a support payment. The law says that everyone in the state who is paying support actually needs to send it to the State Disbursement Unit first, and then it is...

Courts will sometimes make assumptions when it comes to child support payments and the amount that needs to be paid by each parent. While these may be an unavoidable part of the process, it can be argued that assumptions don't always tell the whole story. For example,...

Technically, a spouse who moves to another country is still supposed to pay child support. Legally, though, it can be very hard to get him or her to pay. The reason is that many countries do not have standing laws and agreements saying they'll help if a spouse flees...

People tend not to like paying for anything, but child support seems like one of those things that would actually be easy to stomach. Even if the marriage fell apart, wouldn't the parent be happy to pay to help raise a child that he or she loved? After all, the parent...

When you think of your income for the year, odds are you simply think of your wages, whether you're paid hourly, on contracts, or on a salary. While this is definitely your main source of income, it's important to note that there are far more things to consider when...