Child support orders are based on the income of both parents as well as the needs of the child. In the order, how much needs to be paid, when it needs to be paid, who will pay it, and who will receive it will all be specified. Because a child support...
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Can You Get Past Due Child Support After the Child Becomes an Adult?
Florida has very specific laws in place regarding child support. Both parents are obligated to provide financial support for their child to help ensure their basic needs are met through adulthood. Generally speaking, however, child support obligations end when a child becomes a legal adult at 18. Can you get child support...
Florida Penalties for Failure to Pay Child Support
Florida does not take failure to pay child support lightly. In fact, it has some of the harshest penalties for offenders. Child support is, after all, payments made from a noncustodial parent to the custodial parent to provide financial support to the child. A court will not take likely a noncustodial...
What Can Child Support Payments Be Used For?
When you are going through a divorce and there are children involved, child support may very well come into play. After all, Florida law makes it clear that both parents of a child have a legal obligation to provide financial support. Upon divorcing, Florida child support guidelines will dictate what amount...
Requesting Temporary Child Support
Divorces can take quite a bit of time to resolve. In the meantime, you may have difficulty providing for your children without financial assistance from your soon-to-be former spouse. If this is the case, you should pursue temporary child support by requesting it from the court. Here’s more information on how you...
What Counts As Income for Child Support in Florida?
One of the major issues that need to be addressed in a divorce where children are involved is, of course, child support. While it may be a hot-button issue, its calculation is formulaic in nature and follows fairly strict guidelines in order to be determined. Florida Statute Section 61.30 sets forth...
Do Purchases for My Kids Count Towards Child Support?
Kids require a lot of support. Yes, emotional, moral, and physical support is included in this to be sure. Most of the time, however, people are referring to the financial demands of caring for a child when referencing the support required by kids. It is the responsibility of both parents to financially...
Neutral Exchange of Information Through Child Support App
When you divorce but have shared children with your former spouse, the marriage may be officially brought to a close, but the co-parenting relationship remains. Working with your former spouse to manage the schedules and needs of your children can be difficult, to say the least, especially under the strain of a...
Do I Have to Pay Child Support If I Have Joint Custody?
Divorcing with children has some serious additional layers of complexities that other divorces do not have. The issues of child custody and child support can fundamentally impact a family in far-reaching ways. If you are considering divorce or divorce proceedings are looming in the not-so-distant future, you may have...
The Other Parent Has Sole Custody. Do I Still Have to Pay Child Support?
Parents have a legal obligation to financially support their children. Courts put child support orders in place to help make sure this happens. If a parent fails to make the court-ordered child support payments, then there will be repercussions. If the other parent has sole custody and you perhaps do not get...
