Parents who are responsible for making child support payments can sometimes face financial hardships. For example, you may lose your job or have your work hours reduced, both of which can make it hard to stay current on your child support obligations. Unfortunately,...
Does bankruptcy eliminate my obligation to pay child support?
Data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that American parents pay more than $33 billion in child support annually. Those same statistics show that only half of the custodial parents receive their total support award. That means there's a lot of unpaid child...
How should child support be used by the custodial parent?
Many parents in Philadelphia who are obligated to pay monthly child support typically have real concerns about how the other parent uses these funds. Support payments are not for the parent’s personal use. Instead, the money paid by a co-parent is reserved strictly...
Can you decide not to take child support?
You and your spouse both make good money so, after your divorce, you don’t expect that either of you will have any kind of financial trouble. You have both agreed to share custody of your child, and you feel that determining child support is an unnecessary step. After...
How do Pennsylvania courts calculate child support payments?
You and your spouse have been in a rocky marriage for years and have exhausted all options to mend the great divide and rekindle what you once had. It's not the future you expected, but one that has become a reality, and now a decision must be made. Do you trudge on...
