Child support is the amount of money that a court orders a parent or both parents to pay every month to help pay for the support of the child (or children) and the child’s living expenses.
Every county has a Family Law Facilitator who will help you for free to:
- Prepare forms
- Explain court procedures for getting and changing child support orders
- Calculate child support using the guideline calculator, if you have the necessary financial information
- Explain how the court makes child support decisions
How Child Support Starts:
- Each parent is equally responsible for providing for the financial needs of his or her child. The court cannot enforce this obligation until it makes an order for support. When parents separate, a parent must ask the court to make an order establishing parentage (paternity) and also ask the court to make an order for child support.
- Child support payments are...