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Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued? My husband’s son lives with his mother in Tennessee and we reside in Minnesota. His son is graduating from highschool one year early – age 17 -. If he moves out of his mother’s home and goes to college, are we responsible to continue to pay her child support until his 18th birthday. My ex husband has not made an attempt to see our son who is now 9 for 7 years now. He is paying child support only because I filed with the Department of Revenue and they garnish it right out of his check. My ex is now threatening me that if I don’t stop the Department of Revenue from garnishing his wages, he will take me to court to fight for visitation. What can I do to prevent this from happening? I couldn’t force or make him want to be a father to our son, but financially I could. What are my rights? The Non-Custodial Parent of my 3 children all of which are his has motioned for a decrease in the court ordered child support due to the our oldest child turning 18 years of age. I am literally between a rock and a hard place as Before he issued the motion for a decrease and before the court has even had a chance to hear the case for a decrease he has taken it upon himself to modify the court ordered child support by decreasing the child support by 1/3. He has continually no showed in court when I did have an attorney. I want to go to court for an increase in child support as he placed his other children all of which are over the age of 27 in private schools and medical schools but won’t help Financially for my children to have a better life. Her biological father has not been in her life in any way shape or form, and he and I have never been married or lived together. He and I came to an agreement regarding custody, visitation, payments, etc., had it notarized and we signed it. Now that child support has been ordered, he’s trying to go against our agreement. How much right do I have with this notarized document? My mother divorced my father due to an abusive relationship, they then went into a custody battle, where he had money and she did not, so he had a lawyer, while she was stuck defending herself. They agreed to take two each, and he got it, where she had to pay child support for the two he had, but he did not have to pay anything for the two she had. Well due to financial problems, she took the two she had and moved away. Fourteen years have passed, without her paying any child support. If the subject was brought up, would she have to pay for all the back owed child support, or would the statue of limitations protect her from owing that? My son will be 18 years old this July 2007 and he will not graduate till June 2008. My understanding is that I have to pay child support till he gradates June 2008. Recently, my daughter has been told the truth about her “real” dad. I told the bio-dad of this, and he is THRILLED. He has been seeing her, and wants to establish paternity and get visitation, and pay child support. All the stuff a “dad” does. No-one wanted to take away anything away from my ex husband since he’s been a decent father to her all these years. He doesn’t want to work with us at all and change the visitation schedule so we can all have some time with her. I don’t blame him really, but no-one is trying to hurt him. My daughter wants to see her biological dad and her half brother and sister on his side. When my ex and I divorced, child visitation and support was detailed out in the paperwork. He says that if we want to change that we have to go to court. We are wondering if the bio-dad stands any chance to re-gain legal rights to his child since it’s been 12 years since she was born, and he has had no formal contact with her during that time. Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration. I am a father of two estranged children living with their mother. I’m being hit very hard with child support, recently I ran into my ex’s old best friend (they are no longer on speaking terms) and she said to me that my son is not actually mine (I have always suspected but never raised the matter.) If I have a dna test done and it shows that I am not his father, will I have to continue paying child support? I have a 4 year old son. My ex signed the birth certificate, but is not the father. I know who is dad is but not where. How can I make him take a paternity and make him pay child support as well as get my ex off the birth certificate. I filed a motion for child support modification on 11/06/2006 and reissued it on 01/06/2007 because my co. closed it’s business. I’m now 1,600 arrears and child support in about to suspend my license, report this on my credit and they are taking 160 dollars from a weekly unemployment check of 340. Is there any thing I can do or motion I can file to stop or put a hold on what child support is doing while I wait for an answer for my motion. My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights? I live in New York State and my ex in New Jersey. My ex constantly violates court orders by not paying what he is court ordered to do and he never faces any consequences for them. We are going back to court on Friday because he now is refusing to pay Catholic School tuition for our daughter who is in the fourth grade. It was the school of choice for my son who graduated two years ago and now attending public high school. He has been paying all along, but now refuses. How can he do that? Another issue is health care. I have been paying the cost for the past ten years. My husband and I have raised his 2 sons for the last 14 years and their mother was ordered to pay $50 a week and to pay half of their doctor bills. The boys are 17&15 right now and the youngest wanted to move in with his mother, so we let him and my husband didn’t want to get into trouble so we give her the $50 back every week. My husband still has custody of him so my question is, Do we have to keep giving her the money? I would also like to know if she does get a lawyer, Would we have to pay her back the money from the time he moved in with her? Do I have to sign up for child support if my ex is giving me wages already, or is it illegal not to make him pay child support? Can my ex sue me for monetary help to provide a car or collage education for my child, in addition to my regular monthly support payments? Would costs of a car be covered in the regular monthly support or could a court grant her money for this? My divorce was granted in Texas. I know of two men, my relatives, who are obligated to pay child support. One receives, what’s called, General Assistance, in Pennsylvania. The other one receives TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Both have outstanding child support orders and both have arrearages. Please tell me if these cases are enforceable in the terms of child support. Also, what is the Statute of Limitations of Child Support Payments? I am the custodial parent and I am owed current child support and I am owed arrearage in child support for two children one 20 and 17 in excess of $ 35,000. My ex husband (father of the 2 mentioned children) is going to receive an inheritance from his father who just passed away last week. How do I collect or intercept legally the monies he is going to receive to offset the arrearage he owes me. Can I do this myself and if so how do I file a lien , against my ex and his father??? I am 38 years old my father died 9 to 10 years ago, he did not pay any child support while I was growing up is there a way to collect that money from his social security. My parents where divorced when I was 5 years old, my brother was 3 and he was ordered to pay $200.00 a month for support and $200.00 in spousal support. We never received any money from him the entire time I was growing up. My husband and I have been separated for 3 years now and when he left he agreed to give $200 a week child support i don’t know why he hasn’t filed for divorce but if i had the money i would have already been divorced, but anyway he is behind $3,200 right now and he hasn’t called or talked to his kids in over a month then he calls today wanting the kids and my social security numbers to file taxes Should i let him file or should i refuse to give him the social numbers. If his name is on the birth certificate, does the biological father of my son have legal paternity if we were never married? I am now married to another man who would like to adopt my son. I would also like to secure a passport for my son and passport applications list that both parents need to file for the passport. My son is now 10 years old and his biological father has never met my son nor paid child support. Is it safe to say that I have sole and legal custody of my son? Will I have to contact the biological father and obtain his consent in order for my husband to adopt him? I am a single mother with 3 young boys who were recently taken from me by the state of Indiana, at which time I had lost my job through no fault of my own. Also the court had ordered me to pay child support to the state while they were wards of the state, at which time I had filed a petition to modify the child support due to no job (job went to China). As of December 21st 2006 I have had my children back in my home (meaning the state placed them back with me from foster care) but they are still making me pay child support. My question is how do I get them to stop the child support order due to the fact I am sole provider of my children and living only on unemployment weekly benefit, barely able whatsoever to provide them with the neccessities after I make the weekly child support payments to the county court house? I make about $78,000.00 a year, I pay all my child’s Health Insurance and Private School cost, the School is about $360 a month, I also pay her Health Insurance and Car Insurance, and I pay her $305 a week for child support. basically my total cost of support a week is somwere between $380 & $400 a week… Like I said I am not looking to use this info for any legal process, just for my information and peace of mind… My child’s father owes me a large amount of back child support. He is going to be receiving a settlement for a car accident. Will the state take the back child support out of his settlement automatically like they do with his tax returns, or will I have to rely on him to pay it on his own? My child support case was set up in CA. Then my ex wife moved to AL. She applied for AL child support. My ex say I owe back child support. Child support is garnished from my paychecks so I provided NC with copies to prove that I have paid. Months later AL is still sending me letters stating I owe back support. I’ve written letters asking for a case review, and have heard nothing. Sent emails, called. I don’t know what to do now. My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore? I was dating a woman for a short period when she became pregnant. If I do not sign the birth certificate or a paternity agreement, do not take a paternity test, and she does not pursue child support through the courts can the woman years later hold me liable for child support from the date of the birth? I was never married, and CA is not common law – a 14yr relationhip, I have 3 children with this man who has a verbally abusive history with all in the family. We seperated now for 10 mos…What can I do to control his harrasing phone calls and emails? A restraining order? and how may I file for child support? I live in Colorado and my Ex has filed a Modification of Child Support and Maintenance back in April of 06 and our Court date is Feb 5th 2007. He filed it because he was fired for reasons unknown from being a Network Engineer making 90,000 a year and is now claiming to be self employed installing windows on houses. Well my question is how can I make sure that his income will be imputed and will the Judge make me pay him back the difference in child support and pay back the maintenance from when he filed the motion if the Judge lets him get away with making $12 a hour now compared to 90,000 a year just because he has letters from his Doctors and is a disabled Veteran? My brother was unable to get any information out of the mother or see his son for several months. Since he found out that the mother placed the boy into the mental ward of a childrens hospital where the state took him over and placed him into a mental institute. He is still paying the mother child support even though the mother no longer has custody of the child. My brother loves his son and wants to get him out of this mess. What should he do? After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it? My ex husband and I divorced in Michigan and the court ordered him to pay support on 2 of our daughters. We had it arranged so that he would pay me directly. He has now moved to Boston and I live in Washington state. I am tired of him calling the shots and would like to put it back in the hands of the state. My question is, which state? My son is 18. His father has contributed in the past to his tuition and general support. My son is now going to college full time and his father is not giving any financial assistance at all. Can I file for child support now for the first time? Now I am in the process of establishing paternity, child support and custody . He has been dodging service and completely not interested in seeing his son. Next month is the third time we will have to go to court. Will he get the credit back? Can back child support be requested for a time period wherein the custodial parent moved away without notifying the noncustodial parent, and that parent had no idea where to even send child support payments? I was wanting to find out, If you are still married, and have not filed for seperation do you still have to pay for support in S.C.? I have my son for around 150 days per year (If not more)! My friend took his ex-wife and child back into the house as he did not want them living in the streets. He is still paying child support and the checks are being mailed to her but at his address. We do not have any custody order established, at this point I only agreed to him staying with her because of the other two boys being there also. I do not feel she should be allowed to try to get more money out of me, and put me into the child support system when I already take very good care of my son. I have been divorced for about 6 years and at the time of the divorce, I trusted my ex to support his six children without the request for child support. He has been terrible to deal with and I can’t get him to pay enough support to support my children. I should have listened to the lawyer at the time and asked for alimony and support. I am considering getting a second job, my child support payments are being met by the first job, will my payments increase if I take on a second job? My wife’s brother should be paying child support. However, his parents agreed to take the children and raise them in their home several years ago. They have now lived with the grandparents for the past four years. The brother’s wife is now asking for back child support during that period. My husband is not working right now and I just started again. If his daughter’s mother take out an order for support, could this money be taken ( as in garnished from my paycheck ) and will my professional license be in jeopardy if he is ordered to make payments for back child support? From a legal standpoint, would I be able to obtain a life insurance policy on my child’s biological father? I was never married to the child’s father and the child does not carry his last name. “I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?” Do I still have to pay child support if my child has gone to jail for drugs? I am married and have three children from my ex-husband. My husband has been taking care of me and the children for over 9 years (we live in Georgia). I am thinking of getting a divorce. I have never gotten any money from my ex-husband, he is disabled and could not pay. I need advise on my case, I want to sue my biological father. I have one main obstacle, he’s American of Malaysian-born-origin living in California, married few years after i was born and I’m Malaysian living in Kuala Lumpur. I’m 33 years old now. Can my age now sue him? At the time of the child’s birth, her mother and I both lived in Ohio. The mother subsequently moved with my daughter to Michigan. We have never had a court order. I willingly pay support. I am happy to pay whatever is reasonable, but want it to be as close to what a court would likely rule to protect myself as much as possible from owing a large arrearage at some point (and, of course, to do the right thing). My Mom is on SSI and just recently got a divorce from my Dad. He sent me a check but it is made out to my Mom. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. PA, the state I reside in will not take into consideration that I pay support for two other children and do not receive support for the two at home. t the present time I am about ready to lose my children to the state welfare system and they will be placed into foster care because I do not have enough money after paying $520.00 a month in child support to take care of them. “Should you have to pay paternity on a child that is not yours just because he has your last name?” I was advised from my attorney to not send money to my ex-wife for it will be viewed as a “gift” and not counted as “child support”. My attorney told me to wait to be notified from the courts and if they do not notify me then my ex-wife did not pursue it and not to send her money personally. Now my ex-wife is pursuing child support in Butler County, Ohio where she now resides and I received a note for four years worth of back child support that was never enforced or established. My husband and I have been seperated for about 8 months, but I have not been able to get a divorce because I am pregnant with our second child (which I have placed for adoption). We have a 2 year old child that he has never supported, and I can barely support her on my own. My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old. I filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and listed my child’s mother as well as other creditors under ch 7 (Chapter 7). I now have a court order to pay child support to her. Does a Dad Still Have to Pay Child Support For a Teen Who Became Pregnant, and Cover the Insurance Expenses on an Unborn Child? Should the father still pay child support if the mother met a man and moved to another state leaving the children with the father? Upon the death of the custodial parent, my husband’s daughter came to live with him (prior to our marriage) and he called the Texas Attorney General to begin proceedings in order to cease child support. We are now in September 2006 and we are still getting letters saying he is delinquent on his child support. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. If my 16 year old step-daughter quits school and does not pursue her GED, does my husband’s child support obligation still have to be fulfilled? After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that? If a child is already 18 years old, can a father be made to pay child support? If so how many years would the father be required to pay back pay? I live in New Jersey and my three year old daughter’s father lives Illionois. He has yet to file for visitation, however, he does not pay me any child support. He also has a past of abusing drugs and alcohol. I am afraid that he would try to run off with her as he can be unstable. The mother of my child has been ordered by the court to pay child support, she simply will not pay a penny and hasn’t since the baby was born 10 months ago. There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final? The child support I pay was increased even after the ex and I agreed to what amount was too paid. The root of the problem is I am the biological father of the child. I want to support her but I feel the amount is unfair. Is there anything I can do as far establishing paternity after the fact to reduce the support payment? I believe I conceived a child at the age of 17 years old. The mother, put her boyfriends name at the time, on the birth certificate but they were never married. He raised the child as his own for 17 years. The child will be 18 years old in a couple of months. My husband was married 25 years ago and ex told him she would only ask him to pay support if she needed it. So for the past 25 years no payment was made . Now the children are ages 36 and 25. After being in jail for drugs, is there any hope for visitation with my child? Her mother may still be doing drugs, can she be randomly tested? I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this? My daughter was ordered by the court to a residential treatment facility. Does her mother still have to pay the support to which we agreed? My husband’s ex girlfriend, with whom he has a child, makes more than he does. Can she still get child support from him even though she makes more, and we have a child and another on the way? My divorce decree clearly states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. My ex husband has since moved to another state and faithfully pays his child support. My question is, can he stop paying the ordered child support at the age of 18 even though our agreement states he must continue the support payments while the child is in college? Can I sue my father for education/college expenses and for a car that he promised to me? My ex-wife is trying to get her spousal support extended even though she is capable of working. She is also trying to get me to pay her additional child support as back support, even though I paid that child support – directly to our son who was 18 at the time. I will never be able to purchase a home or have any type of comfortable life-style if I am forced to care for her indefinitely! Do you think a judge would grant her what she is requesting? y question is my boyfriends 18 year old daughter decided to quit school in her senior year. Now she is studying for her GED. We live in Pennsylvania. Does he still have to pay child support? I am a mother of a 4-year-old old and I am expecting another child in 6 weeks. My first child lives with my mother, and I pay child support. I lost my job due to health issues and I can’t get the child support I pay reduced. What should I do? My divorce decree states that child support shall continue past the age of 18 if the child goes to a full time accredited college. Can I get this enforced? Can my fiance’s ex-wife sue me for his child support in Texas? How do I lower my child support when I get a lower paying job? Are there any laws that obligate me to make any sort of ‘support payments’ even though we’re not married? How is child support calculated for a 1099 or self-employed wage earner? What are the allowable business expense deductions? “I am a single mother of three. I have been divorced for a couple of years now and have been receiving child support until recently when I didn’t get a check in the mail. I confronted my ex and he informed me that I would get a whole check at the end of [...] When the statute of limitations has run on collection of child support, there is little that you can do. When a support-paying parent makes an arrangement with the other parent to reduce the amount of child support, if that agreement is not in writing and confirmed by the court, it’s as if the agreement was never made and arrearages will accrue. Most states also consider medical insurance to be an additional requirement, to be provided on top of child support. Whether earned through the military or an after-school job, income earned by a child does not end a parent’s obligation to pay child support. Child support guidelines and child support calculations are designed to cover the cost of generally providing for the child. Child custody issues often bubble to the surface around when summer-time visitation ends and the school year begins. Child custody laws don’t usually define “summer visitation”, and it’s important to have a working relationship and agreement between the parents. Can a child support payor be obligated to pay child support for college? The so-called stop age for child support is typically 18, although it may continue until the child graduates from high school. Child support for college, on the other hand, is not common. How can one obtain child support enforcement against someone who lives in another state, and may be working off the record? Child custody rights and child support payments are not easy to acquire for an older sibling wishing to take in a younger sibling. Tax relief for paying child support is not available to non-custodial parents. The tax deduction still goes to the parent with primary custody unless there is an agreement or court order otherwise.
Can I Get Child Support All the Way Back to When I Got Pregnant?
I applied for a paternity determination in court for my son who is 5 years old. The father asked for a DNA test, and we are waiting for the result. If it’s proven that he is the father, can I ask for child support from the time I got pregnant? He gave me $300 ten times over the past five years. How do I know how much he can afford? He hired an attorney but I cannot afford one to represent me. Thanks for your help. My boyfriend and I have been thinking about getting married. He owes back child support, he is working and paying now. Will the state (Oregon) garnish my wages because of whats owed if we were to get married? How will child support be figured in NC for our 1yr old child once divorce is settled, if soon to be ex-husband has 2 other children (ages 3 yrs and 6 yrs) out of wedlock with 2 other women… Is it based on who filed for child support first or eldest child gets more or does marriage vs. out of wedlock have any changes? “I got a divorce in 1996 and my ex has had primary residential custody of my two children, 11 and 16. My daughter who is 11 has wanted to come live with me for quite some time but her mom would not let her until now. She has moved in and is thriving at school and is active in extracurricular activities. This is a big change from her mother’s house where she was starting to withdraw and make bad grades at school. She has always been an honor roll student. There she is left alone for at least 3 hours a day on a school day and all day if she is out of school. I live in California. I am wondering if there is a way to reduce arrears on welfare owed to the state by my ex wife. My divorce was signed in 1997. I am a disabled physician. The onset of the disability was 1/97 -and was a psych problem. Because of this, I signed a divorce giving my children 50% of my disability check until they were age 26. 1 child is 25 now, the other is 14. I have a child support order in Philadelphia, Pa. My daughter is 18 today, how do I have her emancipated and removed from the order? I wanted to know if I can be sued for not notifying my ex-fiance that my new husband has adopted his son. When I got pregnant I left California and had the baby in New Jersey. After the baby was born, I called him and he paid for the airplane ticket back. He rented a house for us in a bad neighborhood while he bought some land and started building us a house. We were only together for 3 months. We had a couple of arguments about where we lived and other things, and then I threatened to leave and take his son to New York and he slapped me. I am going back to court with my ex to review his child support. He is saying that the kids spend more time with him than they actually do. Would it be wise to have my kids who are 17 & 16 write a letter stating how often they see their dad, for when I go to court in February? My wife had a son out of wedlock and was the custodial parent. The biological father agreed and a court order for child support was initiated, automatically deducting the child support from his retirement check. I have raised my step-son since day 1 and I love him like he is my biological child. He is now 14 years old. My wife passed away unexpectedly and I asked the biological parent to allow me and my wife’s mother co-guardianship, to which he agreed and it was ordered by the court. My sister has a 7 year old boy who has not seen his dad in about 2 years. The father is not on the birth certificate per his request because he did not want to have to pay anything when it came to his son. My sister moved to North Dakota when the baby was 1, to be closer to her family and to better her and her son’s life. The father had no problem with her moving since that way, he didn’t have to fork out the money to care for her or his son. The father lives in Oregon and my sister has taken their son out there to see him, but stopped 2 years ago because she can’t afford it. I met a girl who was 3 months pregnant, and was smoking meth “crank speed” every day from day 1. her mom threw her out, and the biological father offerd her money to have the baby “TAKEN CARE” of. When her mom heard the news, she threw her out of the house… I then took her in, and made sure she understood how the drugs was going to affect her baby in a negative way. I assured her that I wanted the baby as my own, and did the right thing according to my beliefs. I asked her mother if I could marry her, and told the “sperm donor” that if he did not want the child, I would raise him as my own. I’m a father of a 2-yr boy and I pay child support to his mother. I am wondering if I need to also pay for daycare, outside of the child support that I already pay. Does a babysitter fall under the same category as daycare? I am 17 years old soon to be 18 and I live in South Africa. I have no idea if you will be able to help me but my mother and father have been in an on gong maintenance (child support) battle for the last 5 years. It has been suggested to me that I myself sue my father for maintenance as I still live with my mother. My ex-husband and I agreed to end his child support payments permanently and I get to claim our child every year for taxes. Would both of us signing a notarized document of some sort be sufficient and not have legal repercussions on either one of us? My husband just recently found out that he has a 12 year old daughter after taking a paternity test in Texas. Here is the catch, they had another man sign the birth certificate when the child was first born. He died about 8 years ago. She just recently contacted us to tell him that he is the father. Does he have any rights? Also she is getting a Social Security check for the child and does not want to stop getting her benefits. However she wants him to also provide support. My Wife and I reside in West Virginia. We recently found out that her ex husband who lives in New Jersey put in a child support order. We were unaware of any court dates or judgements until recently. We are presently looking to purchase a home. Can a lien be put on the home for unpaid child support. Keep in mind he lives in NJ and we live in WV and were never notified of any court proceedings. I am currently receiving child support for my three children, for which I have custody. We are owed nearly $8000 in back pay, how do I go about getting it? Back story: February 15th 1993 I had sex with a women (protection used) it was a one night stand. Four months later she meets up with me again, tells me she is pregnant and it is mine. I step up, provide financial support, went to the baby shower, listened to her on the phone, etc. Then in August she moved to Texas (I am in Arizona) – I get a call in late September that she is in labor and needs me to come to Texas – at this point the dates didn’t match up, so I requested a paternity test – provided her with all my information (full name, DOB, SSN, employer, etc.) but told her I was not sending any more money until paternity was established. My husbands daughter is 18 years old and should be graduating this month, however due to lack of credits she may possibly not graduate. Our court order says support until 19 or graduation. We live in California. I understand the reason for the law as there are plenty of kids in school that are 18. However does this apply to a child who have dropped out or flunked out and has no intention of returning? I have a four year old autistic son, almost a year ago my soon-to-be ex-husband left town and I do not know where he is. I am trying to find out how to take his parental rights away when I don’t even know where he is. He has not paid me money to help, or contacted me. I had custody of my son for 12 years. When he turned 14, he went to live with his mother and I did not have to pay support because she receives 1,000.00 a month for him for disability and 2,000.00 for herself. Now she is taking me back to court for support. My question is: she still owes back support of 3,500.00. Can I ask the court that she cannot pursue support until she pays the back support? My daughter lives in Seattle and the support order is from NY, she has not graduated from high school and doesn’t attend class. She will be 19 in October. My order states she must finish HS or be 21 on her way to college. I really need to stop this support I have never been late for 24 years with support of all three of my children. Who is responsible for medical bills our children incurred during our separation before the divorce was final? Our decree states that medical bills are split 50/50, but is that AFTER the decree is finalized or from debts from before? Specifically, our oldest daughter started braces during our separation. We both agreed that it would be in her best interest, and my ex-husband has been paying the bill. Does the Support order ruled in Indiana (until the age of 21) remain the same if the child (3 children in this case) hasn’t lived in Indiana for almost 10 years? Meaning, is it still ruled until the age of 21? Custodial Parent moved to Michigan in 2002. My son was born in Illinois and when I signed the birth certificate with the man I was with at the time, he told me he wanted his name on it, even knowing that it was a 50% chance he was not the father. He pressured me at the time and I signed it with him. My son is now 12 and we are no longer together. We were together for 18 years, but never married. He took his own DNA test and is not the father. He said that I will go to jail for perjury because I signed him as the father. Once the mother has exonerated the father from child support and he’s received the papers stating such from the Attorney General’s office in Texas, can she suddenly decide to apply for support and change her mind even though there’s no custody or visitation agreement of any kind? Current Situation: I have 50/50 custody with my ex-husband with our ten year old son. During the last custody case, which ended in 2009, the difference between us as parents in custody is that the court order reads “child shall go to school in mother’s school district because father is more focused on negative attention towards mom than welfare of the child” (from 730 evaluator). My son receives SSI benefits in the State of New York. What are his rights, regarding visitation when not seeking custody? He also has earnings from his job and reports this to SSI. Will he then be responsible to pay child support by having his wages garnished? I have always lived in California, yesterday I received a letter from the office of the Attorney General for the state of Texas notifying me that my child support case (which I was unaware of) was moved to a new office. This is the only communication I’ve ever received from them. I have a child living in my home that is a non-relative. She turned two on Jan. 21, 2012 and she has lived in my home since she was 6 months old. Her father is in prison and her mother is still doing drugs and caring for her 3 older brothers (ages 3 1/2, 8, & 15). I don’t think the mother would agree to giving me custody because she gets welfare for the child. My husband has had custody of his daughter for 16 years. He was divorced in the state of Mississippi and therefore has a custody and child support order from the state of Mississippi. We have lived in TN for 8 years and the child is turning 18 this year. She has said she intends to move to MS to live with her mother when she graduates and that we cannot stop her because the age of majority is 18 in TN. Can my 17 year old son, who is still in high school and now a father, be sued for child support or am I responsible for him? We live in North Carolina. Can the Oklahoma Child Support Services levy or garnish my business bank account for back child support. If not, what’s my best defense without a lawyer? Hi, I just finalized my divorce this month, in the state of Arizona. My ex and I have 3 children together. In the papers I agreed that my ex would claim the oldest each year, and the youngest every other year. I just went on the IRS website and realized that I did not have to agree to this, the court mediator said I didn’t have a choice that I had to let him claim the children that way because he was paying support for the kids, (althought he hasn’t paid anything since he moved out, a year ago.) My fiance received a false order for child support from Division of Family Services in Missouri in December of 2010. He called them to schedule a hearing to disagree (this is what it said to do on the paperwork), because he is not the father of the said child. They told him he must get a lawyer to petition it, and we did not have the 1200.00 for the initial lawyer fee, nor the 500.00 additional needed for DNA testing nor have had the money since (especially since they have been taking half his wages in garnishment). If I take my child’s father to court for child support, would he have to pay insurance back-pay or am I also responsible for paying? My grandson’s father has visitation rights and wants to take our grandson out of state. We are worried he may try to kidnap our grandson. What can we do? My son’s father is in jail and I would like to have his rights terminated. I do want him, however, to be financially responsible for our son. Can the courts order this? Recently my ex submitted medical bills for our son going back four years. Is there a statute of limitations she is breaking? My husband is being told my his son’s mother that he has no rights to see his son. They had their son when they were young and although my husband has stayed in touch with the mother and the boy, he has never provided any child support (nor was any requested). The mother has married and told the boy her husband is his father. Does my husband have any rights? My husband owes a large sum in back child support but set up a payment plan and has been making monthly payments. Despite this, a warrant was issued for back child support and he has been in jail for two weeks. What happened? When I moved to another state for work, I left my children with their mother so they could start school. I am concerned that their living situation with her isn’t the best and would like to gain custody. What can I do to prove that they would be better off with me? My ex threatened to keep my child from me if I didn’t sign divorce papers with which I didn’t agree. Is there anything I can do to change them now? My ex hasn’t made any efforts to see our son for years and recently, following a paternity test, sued me for custody. My son has special needs and my ex is abusive and I need an attorney to fight this but can’t afford one. What are my options? My husband’s ex is harassing us with phone messages. How can we get her to stop? My ex has had no part of our child’s life for the past four years. How can I terminate his parental rights? I just discovered that another man is also paying child support for my child. What can I do? I lived with a man for 22 years and he left our children and me last summer. He’d started a business in the home before leaving and I wondered if I’m entitled to any profits. Can my ex file for retroactive active child support from 1996 to the present? My daughter’s father has been absent from her life for the last year and a half. I recently married and my husband wants to adopt her. How do we go about this? My girlfriend and I are about to be married. We both have children from previous marriages. I pay child support for my 2 children, but my girlfriend’s ex hasn’t paid anything despite having a child support order to do so. What can we do to get him to pay? My daughter hasn’t seen her biological father in over a year. He is not named on the birth certificate nor does he support her, in any way. Can my new husband adopt her? My ex is returning to his estranged wife, who lives in another state. We have a child and he is determined to resolve custody issues without help from the courts. I have many concerns and want to know if a court would consider them valid. My fiance is disabled and has a difficult time holding down a job. He’s been placed in jail for non-payment of child support. Is this a violation of his rights? My ex, who has custody of our daughters, won’t let me see them and is threatening to have them go live with someone else. What can I do to ensure that I’m able to see my girls? My parents, who were never legally married, separated in 2004 and my dad has never supported us or me in any way. Although we used to keep in touch, I recently asked him to send some money for school and medical reasons and he refused and is no longer returning my calls. I feel like I have to do something, as we are struggling financially. We live in Washington state and I wondered if it’s possible to get the past 6 years worth of child support. My son’s father started a child support case after I opened mine but his was taken to court first and was granted in the amount of 154.00 a month for him to pay. He joined the army 2 months after the child support was order but he hasn’t reported anything to DHR and his child support payments have been the same since Oct. 2008 and he’s also leaving for Iraq soon. I placed a child support order in New York City Family court against my husband. Recently we have settled the matter privately and I would like to take to dismiss the case and any arrears that he has. Can I do this by simply going to the court and asking them to close the case against him that we would prefer to handle the matter privately without court or goverment intrusion? I pay NC child support for my daughter who graduates NC high school in January 2010. She does not turn 18 until August 2010. What are my obligations toward NC child support payments in this case? My ex refuses to let me see our son, she also refuses to let me talk to our son.I pay child support through deductions from my weekly paycheck. I am in arrears, but I do have the right to talk to my son and see him. Can I sue for pain and suffering damages? My childs father is currently ordered to pay me 568.00 a month in child support. Me and the father talk pretty regular so he informs me of how much is taken out of his check and from what he tells me..they are taking out almost the full amount but i’m not receiving half of that money on my end in support. I honestly was receiving more from him before the support than what i’m receiving now and that is so backwards. I feel like now i’m being cheated..like i made a mistake putting him on child support in the first place. My question is why are they taking out more than i’m receiving? My daughter’s dad and I had an argument over the holiday’s and I finally called him to see what was going on and he said that he wanted me to file something so that he could sign off his rights. What kind of information can you give me so that I can prove to him that this is not an option? And what exactly could he do if he took me to court to try and sign off his rights and not pay child support? My daughter was arrested for theft in a grocery store, (while pregnant). I found out through a police friend. She has been to her court date, and is on probation, with a few other minor rules. She graduated high school early (almost 17 when she graduated). My question is: Can I legally stop paying child support because she was arrested, or any other reason that you know of given the circumstance? In NY, with a NYC child support order, how do I get the child support terminated when my daughter lives with me now, the non-custodial parent? The biological father of my now 4 year old son left me when I was 7 months pregnant, he was seperated from his wife or so he claimed at the time, they have 2 young children. He is not on the birth certificate and only temporarily paid support from when my son was 3 months to 1 year old. I met my husband and moved to the USA with my ex telling me I was doing him a favor and all support stopped as he claimed he did not want to give money to me and my husband to spend! We have a daughter and loving sister for my son and I just want to make sure that my ex cannot do anything to ruin my family, can he claim custody? I am 17 years old, my mother has full custody of me and my little brother. I am gettin married but my father is paying child support. If I get married would he stop passing child support for me or what happens…? What is the law about this…? A few years ago the court decided to just switch the papers to say my mother had and always had full custody. Now my father has been paying for child support to my mother even though I lived with him most of the time. Now I’m in college, and he apparently must continue to pay until I graduate college and live on my own… even if I go to graduate school. Is this legal, and do I have any factor in stopping this irrational child support? My daughter is now 19 years old. Here father and I were never married and I did not pursue Child Support from him. She has been in contact with him over the last few years. He continually tells her how well his business is doing, but when she asked for a small amount of money he became ballistic with her. I want her to be able to get some money from this man, is there anyway that she can do that? My husband was awarded physical custody of his two children, at the time his ex was not working. She was ordered to provide paystubs to our attorney but failed to do so and we could not keep him on retainer. The court order was done in Arizona and we live in New Mexico. How can we go about filing to get child support set up without having to go back to AZ? I live in Texas and have a question about claiming both my kids on my 2007 federal income tax return. We officially became divorced in Feb 2008, however in 2007 I received no child support whatsoever from my ex for the months of June through the end of the year. Should I just file married filing separately for 2007 and take the deduction for both kids, and what if he has already filed and took the deduction for one the kids? I’m getting married to a man that has been previously married. His wife is presently collecting child support from him. She will probably take him back to court to ask for an increase in child support. Under Maryland law, is she entitled to come after my income once I’ve married her ex-husband? I have full custody, both residential a legal custody of my (2)year old boy. The father has not seen his son either have asked to visit for about a year and a half. He is paying child support through the court. I want to move to a different state. Does he has the right to stop paying child support because we are moving? Do I have to notify the court or child support agency we are moving? My ex boyfriend and I have a daughter together and we live in the same town. He just started paying child support after I filed for it and has been trying to get me to stop it because he got a DUII and his license will stay suspended until he pays off all of the back pay. Since he now pays child support does he have any say in where I take our daughter? If that is the case, would I be able to stop the child support and move away without him having any say so about it? I have never received official child support from my son’s father. My son’s father has helped to support my son from child care through high school. My son is now 18 and a full-time college student. Is my son entitled to receive anything from his father while he is in college full time? I am 16 years old. My parents divorced when I was 3 or 4 and my mom always gets child support from my dad on time. However, whenever I ask my mom for something, she says we don’t have any money. The only thing she pays for me is food. I pay for all clothes, shoes, and anything else I need with money from my job or birthday/Christmas money from other relatives. My dad also pays for my insurence, driving lessons, etc. I also do not get allowance. All of my friends with divorced parents get their child support themselves. Is there someway I could do this? I have recently received a letter from a state agency wanting me to pay child support for a child that was born 15 years ago and that I don’t even know if it’s mine. From what I have found out so far, the man listed on the birth certificate had a DNA test done after the child was 3 years old and found out that it was not his child. However, he never had his name removed from the child’s birth certificate. I’d like to know if this man is still the legal father and therefore responsible to pay the child support and what kind of options I have in fighting this. My husband and his ex-wife both agreed to a child support amount, was written up and all legal. She recently served him with papers that she wanted more money than he was paying, and wants to get back child support over and above what she had agreed on. We reside in Tennessee, please let me know if this is legal, or once an agreement is made how can she back up now and say she wants more? My wife has denied me the right for Joint custody since our divorce in 1996. I am in arrears and now am being prosecuted by an attorney of the state. I could not pay support because of Economic Hardship with my employment career. I would like to know if I could fight for joint custody and sue my x wife for all the years she had not allowed me Joint custody to eliminate arrears and see my children more. My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri. My ex wife and I were divorced in Bergen County, PA. She has now moved with my son to Northern New Jersey. She has file a complaint of domestication and she says it is for the sole purpose of legally stating that she resides in NJ now. In this complaint it now states a lot of different things. Such as paying support until the child is 23. How can I stop all these new things from happening? My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son. My son came to this decision after learning that his father (who had physical custody of our son while he was a minor) bounced checks for college tuition he had originally agreed to pay, claimed that he supported my son on his income tax returns for the past 12 years though he lived apart from my son and paid no child support or general support to my son, and left medical bills unpaid from while my son was a minor that are now appearing on my son’s credit report (our child support order had his father responsible for these bills). Does he have any recourse to “make” his father pay the back tuition to the college since he now is unable to enroll due to outstanding tuition bills and inability to make a “payment arrangement” with the school since his father passed an NSF check to the college? I live in Missouri and I have to pay for half of my sons college and I still am ordered to pay child support on top of that, do I have to pay the child support to my ex or is there any way I can pay that support directly to my son? My ex disappeared for a few years now she’s back and wants back support, can I take it to court and fight it, or will I have to pay it? I have no idea where her and my kids have even been for the past few years. I have two adult children that I pay child support to. one is 22 the other is 19. the oldest graduated high school at the age of 20 the other is still in high school and looks like he will not graduate till he is 20 all so I have several issues that need answers. To me I am having my wages extorted by wash.state who at no point in time has made the mother accountable to the well being of the children. Is there anything legally I can do on any of this or do I just have to keep getting my wages garnished and me to live paycheck to paycheck. I am separated from my husband and we have a 4 year old daughter together. He refuses to pay child support and he comes and goes in and out of our child’s life. He gets paid well under the table and he basically shows no income. I make good money and I’m afraid if I do file I will end up paying him support. Is this possible that he can pay child support and that I may end up paying him since there is no proof of his income? My ex and I agreed to my paying $300.00 a month in child support for my 3 children. The courts further stated that I need to keep medical insurance on my children as well. I really don’t have a problem with either of these conditions, however, now my ex wants me to drop the insurance and pay her an extra $100 dollars a month in child support. Is there anything which can be done about this? Is my ex-wife required to supply me with items of necessity when my daughter is in my care, such as diapers; since I pay my child support regularly? I paid extra in child support for 3 years because my ex threatened me. We have just terminated the child support and I found out that while I paid in extra support, the courts did not pay that money out to my ex. What happens to that money? Can I get it back? When my ex-wife and I separated/divorced we lived in AZ. After it was final I moved to North Carolina. Our child support agreement is through the state of AZ. She has recently moved to Phily. What happens to the court order? Do I need to file and start the process over in Phily, or does it automatically carry over from AZ to Phily? My ex-wife and I had an agreement in our decree ( not a court order) to “half college expenses” for our daughter. At the time, we intended our daughter would attend an in-state public college as we did. However, my ex-wife now expects me to pay half of out-of-state tuition (which is twice the cost), because my daughter wants to be on the swim team but was not offered a scholarship. Would the court require me to pay half of out-of-state expenses, or is the agreement too vague to enforce? Since his divorce we have had another baby, also their tuition has went up again this year. We just can’t afford it anymore. His attorney hasn’t really been helping us, so I was just wondering if there was some way we could go in front of a judge have our case heard. We cannot afford the retainer fee for another attorney, and I want to file some sort of motion, but I don’t know what type of motion to file for this situation. When we initially filed for child support, we agreed that we would drop the back child support and add on to the minimum monthly payments instead. Now he is wanting to back out of the “add-on” and claim that the add-on was for a different reason that is no longer an issue. Can I go back and file for the back child support that was never paid, even though it was agreed to be dropped at the time? What can I do about having a court order issued to provide medical insurance of my child when I can’t afford to pay the premium? I am a mother of two 12 and 7, both boys. I have had to carry insurance and everything to daycare even the few hours he was around. Here I am after 12 years I finally got brave enough to file. But, I finally got a letter to got to court within the week and I am nervous as hell. I cant afford an attorney and don’t even know what to expect. What does this mean for him to be at court? My father never paid child support for me or my brother. We are both adults now and wonder if he can be sued?