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...
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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...
Solving complex child support issues in Alabama
There are many different legal issues that can cause complications for family relationships in Alabama. Divorce cases can, of course, become quite contentious, and there are many different issues in a divorce case that can be complex, including: property division;...
Back child support and emotional hardships
It is imperative for parents to realize the different ways in which emotional challenges are associated with back child support. For example, some parents fall behind on their child support because of crippling anxiety or depression. On the other hand, some parents...
Rights and responsibilities in Alabama child support cases
Child support is a fundamental part of Alabama family law. The care of children is taken very seriously when a couple parts ways and the parents are obligated to adhere to the rulings given by the state court system or an agreement they cobbled together on their own....
Child support delinquency can cost you government benefits
When parents fall behind on child support, state and federal governments often use various methods to get that money in other ways. For instance, it might garnish paychecks or seize tax refunds to ensure children get the financial support they need from both parents....
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