When the family structure changes due to your Alabama divorce, the court ensures both you and your ex have a relationship with your kids. You legally share the financial and child-rearing responsibilities. However, if you were not married, the father may not have any...
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Information about modifying a child support order
A child support order outlines the amount and frequency of payments from one parent to the other. The recipient of the money must use it to pay for the child's daily and healthcare needs. Although this amount remains the same throughout the terms of the order, either...
Back child support and credit bureau reporting
If you fall behind on child support payments, you could face a number of repercussions that turn your life upside down. For example, you could lose your passport privileges, your driver's license and even have to spend time behind bars. Aside from a shattered...
Child support and medical care
Whether you are a non-custodial parent who will owe child support or you worry about your finances as a custodial parent, it is essential to think about your child's medical needs. Courts go over a host of factors when calculating child support, including medical...
Will Alabama soon update its child support guidelines?
Whether you pay or receive child support, its amount, and the calculations used, greatly impact your life. As noted by the Subcommittee on Child Support Guidelines and Schedule Update in its Sept. 28, 2021, Memorandum to the Alabama Advisory Committee on Child Support...
Checking your balance and paying child support
If you recently got a divorce and you owe child support, or you anticipate that child support obligations will arise in the future, it is essential to ensure that you stay current. Make sure that you take advantage of various tools available to help you pay for child...
When can people deviate from the child support guidelines?
Raising children in Alabama can be costly. Parents need to provide for their children’s needs. This includes ensuring they have a roof over their heads, food and clothing. Those are the basics, but parents also pay for the children’s activities, sports, entertainment,...
What are child support payments intended to cover?
Knowing what expenses child support is intended to cover is important for parents to be familiar with. What child support is intended to cover can vary by state so it is important for parents to know what expenses are included in child support in their state. What is...
Do you have to pay for college expenses during divorce?
People do not often agree about much during divorces. However, divorce is probably the best time to agree about certain major future decisions with your coparent. Setting everything up for your child's future is part of the divorce process. Your agreement can usually...
Can a parent quit a job to lower child support?
Raising a child in Alabama involves parents needing to pay for their needs. This can be fairly expensive at times whether parents realize it or not. Often times they simply pay for the things their children need and then budget for the extras. However, those items...
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