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Child support payments may significantly impact the finances of divorced and separated parents. Taxes can also create significant amounts of stress for divorced and separated parents. If you pay or receive child support, you should understand how that affects your...
If you are a parent who is paying or receiving child support, you may need to modify your order in the future. This usually helps ensure that the support payments remain fair and meet the needs of your family. Why would you need to modify your order? One of the main...
Trying to support a child on a single income is challenging. Child support orders help to ensure that both parents are providing for the child financially. It is imperative that the parents are in compliance at all times. The parent who is receiving the funds on the...
Child support is a way for a noncustodial parent to help pay for the expenses of the children because it isn't right for one parent to shoulder the entire financial burden of the kids. For the most part, the child support is ordered by the court, which means that the...
While many people think about the regularly recurring payments from one parent to the other when they think about child support, this isn't the only thing that these orders cover. The court will usually set the standard for which parent needs to include the child on...
Parents who are divorced need to budget for those payments. It doesn't matter which side of the matter you are on. If you are making those payments, you must ensure that the money is available. If you are the recipient, you should set your budget to use them as a...
Some parents balk at the idea of having to pay child support, but this isn't something that should be seen as a negative action. Children are expensive. There isn't any reason why one parent should be left having to cover all of the costs of raising a child that it...
Determining child support can be huge challenge in divorce. With the recent change in child support guidelines in Massachusetts last year, the process can seem even more daunting. The goal of the changes was to make the calculation of child support simpler and more...