Calculating Child Support Texas Child Support Child support might be feared, anticipated, calculated and discussed in your divorce and in the years after your divorce – depending on who you are. Are you the paying parent? Are you the receiving parent? This post is designed to give you a starting point for understanding how your [...]
Texas Child Support Texas child support can be confusing for parents when you are just starting your divorce. The business part of your divorce involves untangling two lives. The emotional part of your divorce is much more than that, but it isn’t the part that your divorce lawyer will be working on. So, back to [...]
Modifying Child Support Updated for 2019! Divorce Decrees are final orders. However, that doesn’t mean that what is in there can never be changed. Child support can be changed under certain circumstances. Statutory Change And, effective in 2015, two specific ways the court may modify or change child support are included in divorce decrees. And, [...]
Can you get a child support increase? How do you know if you can increase your child support? If you are a divorced parent receiving child support, you may be entitled to a child support increase. The child support amount you receive was most likely set at the time of your divorce based on all [...]
Why Is My Child Support This Much? Texas Child Support Factors In a media covered ruling on Monday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that a father of three, Daniel Halseth, now divorced from former state senator, Elizabeth Halseth, must pay $2,274 a month in child support to his ex-wife. This ruling came from an appeal [...]
Child Support Modification Do you find yourself with questions about modifying child support? Child support is set in final orders based on the income of the paying parent and the number children at the time of the orders. But, your child support amount doesn’t have to stay that number forever. Child support can be [...]
Top 3 Questions from Dads in Divorce Have you seen or heard the ads for men going through divorce? I’ve seen and heard quite a few ads directed at men who are going through divorce. It is interesting and a bit odd to me, because not all men have the same concerns any more than [...]
Texas Child Support is set using the paying parent’s income (obligor), the number of children and some other factors listed in the child support statutes including the cost of health care for the children. Texas child support is set using one of two charts to determine which percentage of the monthly net income of the [...]
Texas Child Support - Tips to Talk with your Lawyer Determining standard child support in Texas is pretty straight forward. The Texas Family Code provides the method to determine child support based on income (gross and net) and the number of children in the marriage. It is all about the numbers, 20% of monthly net [...]