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Child support may be ordered of any legal parent who has not officially relinquished his or her parental rights. If you are a biological parent, or an adoptive parent, of a child, then you may be ordered to pay child support for that child whenever you are no longer living in his or her home or providing him with routine care.
→ Read MoreThe costs of child care, such as day care or baby sitters, is factored into the equation when a court is calculating how much child support one parent needs to pay to the other. How exactly this calculation is made varies by state. In the majority of cases, however, the cost of child care is split 50/50 under the law.
→ Read MoreIn a divorce and custody case where child support is being calculated, standard of living will factor into the calculation. Standard of living refers to the type of lifestyle that the child will live, based on income and money available. The general legal understanding is that the child is legally entitled to live at the same standard of living as the parents.
→ Read MoreThe calculation of child support payments differs widely by state, but in general, it’s based on the broad definition of your total income after taxes and after deductions are taken out’ in other words, your net income. However, while the vast majority of states use your net income as the basis for the support calculation, there are a few that calculate based on gross income. Regardless of whether net or gross income is used, this number is then put through another series of deductions and calculations, depending on laws in your area, to determine how much you must pay.
→ Read MoreA paternity or parentage action refers to a legal proceeding in which a parental relationship between a father and minor child is formally established. The action may be commenced by an alleged father seeking custody or visitation, a mother seeking child support, a child seeking to establish a parental relationship or the state seeking reimbursement for public assistance.
→ Read MoreSome divorcing parents may try to make an agreement for a large lump sum child support payment rather than a regular, extended payment plan. However, if a parent who paid a lump sum is later sued for more child support, he will be obligated by the courts to pay more.
→ Read MoreOnce a child is considered a legal adult, the non-custodial parent is no longer required to pay child support payments. However, should there be back child support payments that remain unpaid, the custodial parent still generally has the right to collect on these back payments, even after the child has been emancipated.
→ Read MoreDepending on the particular circumstances of the situation, it’s possible that a judge will order a parent paying child support to cover the cost of a private school for the child. There is not one set rule of thumb about this, simply because it varies according to a number of factors and because the laws in each state may be different.
→ Read MoreAfter custody proceedings have ended, Washington wage garnishment law dictates that the court or a state agency issue the noncustodial parent an order for child support collection. This support order is usually served on the noncustodial parent’s employer, and its enforcement is binding on both the parent and the employer to garnish the wages. Child support collection does not terminate for the noncustodial parent when they move out of the state that issued the order. All states follow the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, which mandates that support orders be followed regardless of the state that issued them.
→ Read MoreChild support in Washington State is defined as “money which an absent parent is ordered to pay on a regular basis to help support the…
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