Child Support

After a child support order has been issued, monthly child support payments are enforceable by the courts. Unfortunately, there is no way to ensure the non-custodial parent actually pays their child support obligations. In California, child support that goes unpaid must be paid back and will come with a 10 percent interest rate per year. The only way a non-custodial parent can stop child support payments is if they sign over their parental rights, the child turns 18 or 19, or if the child is no longer attending school full-time.…

In California, child support is used to help the custodial parent financially support the child or children living in their home. When couples have similar incomes, they may wonder who would be awarded child support. However, what couples do not realize is that child support is not based on which spouse makes more or less – instead, it is about the amount of financial support the child would receive if the parents still lived together and supported the child together. Can a California child support lawyer help? The Purpose of…