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If I was laid off and cannot afford child support payments, can I have them lowered?

If your income has dropped dramatically and you are no longer able to make your child support payments, you have two options: you can explain the situation to the custodial parent and ask them to agree to a temporary or permanent change in your child support payments or you can petition the court and request that they make a change in the child support order despite the objections of the other parent.

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Child Support Modification

A child support order can be changed or modified if there is a material change in circumstance since the original court order of child support. The party seeking to modify child support will need to petition the court, and will have the burden of proving that circumstances have changed in such a manner that the child support order needs to be altered.

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How to Increase Child Support

A custodial parent can have a number of reasons to increase child support and the process by which it may be increased varies by state. Find out how to increase your child support payments.

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