Articles Posted in Child Support

If you have the means to pay child support, you should do so immediately. In fact, failure to pay may be a crime if you have the money but simply refuse to pay it. If you do not have the money to pay due to a loss of job or…

Relying on child support payments can be a frustrating experience. This can get even more complicated when an ex moves out of the country bust still owes child support. It becomes very difficult to legally secure that money. Florida’s new law attempts to make it easier to secure payments from…

In Florida all parents must contribute to the support of their minor child(ren). A minor child is defined as a child who has not yet reached majority (18 years old). If however, the child is 18 but is still in high school, than child support can be extended until either…

A Parenting Plan is a document that governs the way divorcing parties relate to one another about the decisions made regarding their children. A Parenting Plan includes a time-sharing schedule that dictates when the parties’ children will be spending time with each parent, including overnights, weekends, holidays and summer breaks.…

Timesharing disputes often conclude where one party is granted majority timesharing of a child, while the other is issued a court order to pay child support each month. The effect of the court order is a legal obligation for the minority timesharing parent to make monetary payments to the majority…

As a practicing Florida Child Support Attorney, I have seen one party to the original divorce in Florida have an increase in assets. Usually this sort of increase does not happen all at once, it can sometimes take years. A competent Child Support Lawyer in Florida should know that Florida…

In my practice as a Florida child support lawyer, I see people all the time who have been affected by these tough economic times and now cannot pay the Florida child support obligation that has been ordered. If you have been ordered by a Florida court to pay child support,…

In today’s economic times, people are having difficulty paying their Florida child support obligation. As a child support lawyer in Jacksonville, Florida, I see people who are entitled to a lower child support obligation but they have no idea how to go about getting the obligation reduced. As such, they…

Can both parents mutually agree to waive child support payments in a divorce or paternity action? As an Orange Park Child Support Attorney I have come across this topic on several occasions. I always tell clients and potential clients that child support is a right that benefits the child. A…

In Florida, if a parent does not pay their court ordered child support they could likely find themselves behind bars. However, to put a non-paying parent in jail the court must: (1) Find that the parent is willfully failing to pay the ordered child support amounts, (2) make the affirmative…