Sentences with phrase «establishing child support payments»

Additionally, if you need help establishing child support payments, an attorney can assist you with that, too.

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The benefit to children of payment of child support by their fathers is also well established, and greater contact with non-resident fathers tends to be associated with more child support being paid (Seltzer et al 1998).

Critical to establishing the financial basis for making child support payments is the determination of gross income for each parent, from all sources.

Legal help in establishing paternity; establishing, enforcing, and modifying child support & medical child support; recovering and distributing child support payments.

Also known as the child support guidelines, the CSSA establishes a formula for establishing the amount of child support payments based on the income of both parents and the number of children to be supported, subject to certain other adjustments.

The rules that apply to child support in divorce cases as in the amount and configuration of payments, are the same in child support cases where paternity must first be established.

Parents may wish to avoid support payments by obtaining joint custody, but only if they have established a stable home environment, where the children can be safe and well supervised.

Once your child support payment amount is established, as determined by Florida's child support guidelines, the payment requirement is enforceable not only in Hillsborough County and throughout Florida, but also anywhere in the country.

[42] I note in addition the respondent provided no authority to establish that the court can retroactively calculate child support payments based upon the payor's line 150 income, and then set the arrears based upon the difference between what was paid and what should have been paid according to the line 150 income.

The only way a paying parent can lower their child support payments for a child would be by establishing undue hardship under s. 10 of the Child Support Guidelchild support payments for a child would be by establishing undue hardship under s. 10 of the Child Support Guidsupport payments for a child would be by establishing undue hardship under s. 10 of the Child Support Guidelchild would be by establishing undue hardship under s. 10 of the Child Support GuidelChild Support GuidSupport Guidelines.

This guide covers cases dealt with under Child Support Acts 1991 and 1995, the Child Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrumChild Support Acts 1991 and 1995, the Child Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrSupport Acts 1991 and 1995, the Child Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrumChild Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrSupport Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrumChild Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (under which the Commission has been established) and all subsidiary and related child support legislation and statutory instrumchild support legislation and statutory instrsupport legislation and statutory instruments.

The court may order either spouse to make maintenance payments, either rehabilitative or permanent in nature, to the other spouse if it finds that the spouse seeking maintenance needs the income and lacks property or both, or is unable to support himself or herself through appropriate employment at the standard of living established during the marriage, or is the custodian of a child of the parties.

Property is divided, debts are assigned to one or the other, a child custody and visitation plan is established, and support payments are determined.

The program's goal is to help custodial parents locate non-custodial parents, establish paternity, establish and enforce child support orders, modify orders when appropriate and collect and distribute child support payments.

Such programs would provide parent education classes for divorcing parents, increase the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit for poor working parents, establish paternity and increase the payment of child support, and improve the quantity and quality of time that nonresident parents, especially fathers, spend with their children.

www.newyorkchildsupport.com - The child support program provides custodial parents with assistance in obtaining financial support and medical insurance coverage for their children by locating parents, establishing paternity, establishing support orders, and collecting and distributing child support payments.

(12) «Obligee» means the person to whom payments are made pursuant to an order establishing, enforcing, or modifying an obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support.

(20) «State Disbursement Unit» means the unit established and operated by the Title IV - D agency to provide one central address for collection and disbursement of child support payments made in cases enforced by the department pursuant to Title IV - D of the Social Security Act and in cases not being enforced by the department in which the support order was initially issued in this state on or after January 1, 1994, and in which the obligor's child support obligation is being paid through income deduction order.

(4) «Depository» means the central governmental depository established pursuant to s. 61.181, created by special act of the Legislature or other entity established before June 1, 1985, to perform depository functions and to receive, record, report, disburse, monitor, and otherwise handle alimony and child support payments not otherwise required to be processed by the State Disbursement Unit.

For those families who are not lifted out of poverty by formal child support payments, the assistance can still help close the «poverty gap» that these families face.3 In addition to the economic benefits, child support payments are associated with greater academic achievement and fewer externalizing problems in children.4, 5,6 Previous research also shows that fathers who voluntarily establish paternity are more likely to pay child support (despite being less likely to have a child support order), to pay more over the long term, and to increase their payments over time.7

(13) «Obligor» means a person responsible for making payments pursuant to an order establishing, enforcing, or modifying an obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support.

In a study of unwed fathers one year after their children's births, Mincy, Garfinkel, and Nepomnyaschy found, using Fragile Families data, that strong enforcement, measured as a city or state's commitment to establishing paternity, increased the chance that fathers had seen their child in the past thirty days and that they had received an overnight visit from their child in the past year.47 A nuanced set of findings emerges from a separate study by Nepomnyaschy of the interactions between father involvement, and formal and informal support payments.48 Both formal and informal support payments one year after a child's birth raise the likelihood of father contact two years later.

In response to Federal legislation mandating a state disbursement unit for collecting and disbursing child support payments, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services developed the Child Support Enforcement Agency, which establishes and enforces support orders for parents that are receiving public assistchild support payments, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services developed the Child Support Enforcement Agency, which establishes and enforces support orders for parents that are receiving public assisupport payments, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services developed the Child Support Enforcement Agency, which establishes and enforces support orders for parents that are receiving public assistChild Support Enforcement Agency, which establishes and enforces support orders for parents that are receiving public assiSupport Enforcement Agency, which establishes and enforces support orders for parents that are receiving public assisupport orders for parents that are receiving public assistance.

As a result, when an unmarried mother seeks child support payments, she first must establish legal paternity for her children.

For example, the court can temporarily establish custody, child support and alimony payments to govern the spouses» conduct until the divorce becomes final.

The OCS helps custodial parents establish parentage; establish an order for child and medical support; modify or enforce an existing order for child and medical support; make support payments to the custodial parent; and locate a missing noncustodial parent.

The parent should be ordered to pay a child support amount, determined on a case - by - case basis, to establish the principle of payment and lay the basis for increased support orders should the parent's income increase.