Many spouses feel that the best way to make child support payments is through the Support Collection Unit (SCU). The SCU is a service unit run by the government that not only aids in the collection and distribution of support…
Many spouses feel that the best way to make child support payments is through the Support Collection Unit (SCU). The SCU is a service unit run by the government that not only aids in the collection and distribution of support…
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for a parent, who is expected to pay a court-ordered child support, to not do so. Fortunately, however, there are laws in New York State in place to track such child support cases, and the…
In the state of New York, the courts definition of “legal parent” is not always necessarily based on biology. For instance, if the mother was married at the time the child was either born or conceived, then that husband is…
Many spouses think that if there is joint custody of a child, meaning both parents have physical and legal custody, that they should not have to pay child support, or rather, child support should not be ordered by the court….
A common question in divorces that involve children is whether or not child support is considered taxable income by the spouse receiving the support. The answer to this question is no, and moreover, it is not deductible for the spouse…
Each state has its own “formula” for calculating child support, and court judges will use this formula when determining how much child support will be paid. However, parents can still estimate fairly well what the child support amount might be…
When a divorce trial has come to an end, and everything is settled and planned out, it is extremely common that one spouse will start paying the other spouse per the agreements made in court. Two of the most common…
When one parent is awarded child support in any divorce proceeding, it acts just like any other order delivered by the court, and is enforceable with an order of contempt action. Typically, if the non-custodial parent does not comply with…