Parents must support their children, regardless of their relationship with each other. When a child’s parents are no longer together, this obligation is expressed legally through a child support order. If you are paying due to a child support order, you may wonder, When does child support end in Alabama? Below, Summit Family Law explains […]
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Important Update (2023): There has been a change to how child support is calculated in Alabama for parents with joint physical custody which takes effect on June 1, 2023. This change is crucial to understand if you are interested in modifying an existing child support order. Get the full details here. Child support modification is
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Important Update (2023): Starting June 1, 2023, there will be a significant alteration in the method of calculating child support for parents who share physical custody of their children in Alabama. Get the full details here. Joint custody refers to a child’s shared physical and/or legal custody after the parents separate or divorce. In such
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If your former partner has stopped paying child support, talk to them about their situation. If they’ve recently lost a job or experienced financial difficulty, you can have the child custody order modified, allowing them to make payments. If that’s not possible, you have several legal options, from placing a lien on their property to
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You can request a child support modification by working out an agreement with the other parent. If possible, you could then file a petition that would modify an already-existing agreement. Here, you could make changes to child support payments, visitation rights, and other details. Yet, not every custodial case is straightforward. You may feel uncomfortable
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Most states offer options for modifying divorce and child custody orders already in place. The courts understand that the orders that worked for your family initially may not work forever. So, the short answer is yes; you can get child support changed if you lose your job and can’t keep up with payments as expected.
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Child support and custody arrangements usually go hand in hand. Some types of custody agreements can affect the child support obligation. In many cases, there will be a custodial parent who receives child support payments from the noncustodial parent. However, several factors are considered when determining both custody agreements and child support payments. Deciding on
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Determining Child Support in Alabama doesn’t have to be overly complex. Typically, child support refers to payments that one or both parents must make on a monthly basis to support minor children in their household. In Alabama, children younger than nineteen years old, who are not married, nor in the military, qualify to receive child
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There are mechanisms in place that allow enforcement of child support orders of another state, called foreign orders/out-of-state child support orders, without registering the order. The party seeking to enforce the order would send specified information, including a certified copy of the order, to the proper support agency in Alabama. The agency will review and
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While child support payments or orders are commonly violated – just forty-three percent of parents who are owed child support actually receive it – the consequences are severe. Parents who are unable to pay child support can face orders from wage garnishment to imprisonment, depending on the extent to which they neglected the child support
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