But, visitation, (a / k / a parenting time), is not tied to whether or not a parent
actually pays the child support s / he is supposed to pay.
Not exact matches
So even though I had this lovely notion that the government was
supporting me while I spent a year nurturing my
child, I was
actually just collecting the monies I'd
paid into the system over the years.
My ex husband has not kept insurance on the kids, has not
paid child support, has not
paid anything
actually, does not always see the kids on visitation, has physically abused them.
Once they
actually met him, they found out that he doesn't
pay child support and doesn't provide anything for his kids.
Right now governments often
pay families
child support according to how many
children they have, which
actually encourages larger families unfortunately.
For example, if you
paid for 60 % of the childcare while you were with your spouse then you will continue to
pay 60 % once you are divorced.Credits are provided for
child support previously ordered and
actually paid for, a
child of another relationship, health insurance costs for the
child, and day care costs for the
child if it is necessary for work.
One way, for instance, is if you fail to
pay child support, because the judge believes that you have the money, even though you don't
actually have it.
Further, the parents agreed that the father would receive
child support credits for 98 days, rather than the approximately 130 days he
actually had them (meaning he was technically
paying more than he had to).
Generally, however, the parent who spends less than half time with the
child — the non-custodial parent —
actually pays support.
In most cases parents don't understand what custody
actually means — they believe it has to do with where the
child will live or who should
pay child support.
Parents do not have to
actually get divorced for the custodial parent to request a
child support order, and the noncustodial parent must
pay child support as ordered even if the parents are still married.
The Courts have adopted guidelines intended to provide guidance as to what it
actually costs to raise
children following their parents» divorce.The Guidelines fix a range of
support that should be
paid by both parents, proportionate to their incomes.
So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems
paying or receiving
child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own
children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with
children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many
children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person
actually spent caring for
children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful
children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.