Collecting and Paying Child Support
There are over 40 million parents in this country who are currently involved with a government child support enforcement (CSE) agency, Are you one of them? If so, you are probably frustrated and unhappy with how your case is being handled. Whether or not your local CSE agency operates under the District Attorney's Office, Office of the Attorney General, or through the Department of Health & Human Resources, which are all actually run under the federal government's umbrella of laws.
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What you need to know:
- Services Provided by Government CSE Agencies: Establishment of paternity, child support, and medical support orders is the first function.
- Welfare Cases & Welfare Reform: Approximately 40 - 50% of all cases currently handled by government CSE agencies involve custodial parents with children on welfare.
- Establishment of New Child Support Orders: A noncustodial parent must be personally served with a Summons & Complaint or Petition for child support.
- Enforcement of Child Support Orders: Federal law requires all child support payments be made by wage assignment and health insurance by Health Insurance Orders.
- Interstate Cases: Often parents reside in different states which can create problems for both parties in a child support case.
- Emancipation: Once a child emancipates, child support ceases. However, each state may have a different law regarding exactly when a child emancipates.
Child Support by State
A Few Important Things to Remember
- The age of emancipation will vary from state-to-state. This is the age a parent is no longer obligated to pay support.
- The visitation/parenting time arrangement often dictates the support order because in many states the number of overnights is considered when determining the amount of child support.
- No visitation/parenting time, does not mean you can stop paying child support.
- Child support orders should be re-visited and potentially modified through the court every few years.
- It is very common for high income families to deviate from the child support guidelines.
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These download books will explain in detail how child support works in your state. It will focus on the rights each father, mother and child has under certain laws, situations, and circumstances, and how child support is calculated using the official state child support guidelines.
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CALCULATION – Every jurisdiction has its own regime for calculating support, and most also have websites that provide a general estimate of the amount. Common routines, however, are 1) what is called the income shares model, which calculates support by estimating the amount of support that would have been available to the children if the family had remained intact; 2) the percentage of income model, which affixes support
a percentage of the income; or 3) the chart support method, which establishes a base support from a chart, takes into account the gross income of both parents, less special adjustments (such as support for children of a previous marriage).
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