Child Support & Visitation Do Not Overlap
Sadly, in child custody and child support situations, too many parents makes mistakes that the law does not permit…
Payment of Child Support and Spousal Support
When you are under a court ordered obligation to pay support, you must do so timely. It is important to be aware that payment of your support is not made when you send a check, and not when the check is received. Payment is only legally made when the check is negotiated for good funds by being deposited and clearing …
Avoid Open Ended Pendente Lite or Preliminary Conference Stipulations
Lately I have subbed into too many divorce cases where the pendent lite (or preliminary conference) stipulation required the moneyed spouse to either: pay all charge card bills, or pay a percent of all expenses as listed therein, instead of paying a specific amount of child support and or spousal support each month. The problem is that even when the …
What You Need to Know About Child Support But Never Asked
This is important information whether you pay or receive child support. Information most lawyers do not tell you at the time the child support order was issued. Information that may help keep many of you out of court, or have better success in court. If you receive child support, you probably get a basic child support amount paid weekly,
When Should Child Support End?
Presently when parents of a child in common no longer reside together, one parent pays child support to the primary residential parent. Child support includes a basic periodic payment of money that is paid to the residential parent. In addition the nonresidential parent also contributes a set pro rata percentage of add-ons, i.e., unreimbursed uninsured medical costs, childcare, college. For …
Support Info You Need to Know
Support Info You Need to Know Child support laws in this state are cold and calculating (pun intended). But what most people do not realize is that the due date for child support is a due date, not a mail by date. Thus, for example, if your support payment is due on the 1st of the month and you mail …
Child Support and Unemployment or Loss of Income
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at an all-time high as of this writing. Even if you’re reading this blog post months from when it was originally published, the market is likely far above where it was when the financial markets collapsed in 2008. Yet for all of Wall Street’s flowing champagne and expensive caviar, most people have yet to …
Child Support Nightmare
CHILD SUPPORT NIGHTMARE by: Mace H. Greenfield The June 2002 article in Newsday, “Child Support Case Painful, Complex,” is indicative of the blunders regularly found in child support cases in Family Court. Based on the information in that article only, it is important to know the following: At the time of the parties’ divorce, the father had already lost his …