Category Archives: Child Support
The impact of child support delinquency on your credit
If you have been ordered by a court to pay child support, it’s essential to make these payments in full and on time. The penalties for not doing so can be serious. Here in Las Vegas, as in many other places, they can include significant fines and even jail time. Another potential negative effect… Read More »
How are a child’s ‘best interests’ determined?
In family law, the concept of what’s in a child’s “best interests” has generally become the standard when courts are asked or required to step in and make these decisions in divorce cases. That happens when parents can’t agree on custody and visitation arrangements or other matters impacting their children. The goal of this… Read More »
Can child support be negotiated?
Child support under Nevada family law is determined by the court and covers food and shelter along with clothing and utilities. Nothing prevents parents from negotiating additional payments by the non-custodial parent and even settling for less under certain circumstances. Why would a custodial parent settle for less than the court’s child support guidelines?… Read More »
Financial management after a divorce
Divorce is a painful, emotional time for most couples. Afterwards, you may feel as though you’ve made it — that you’re free of the hardships the divorce has caused. However, when it comes to finances, you can quickly find that yours aren’t doing so well after your divorce. Here are some financial management tips… Read More »
How do I get child support if the father denies paternity?
In the state of Nevada, if the mother wants to collect child support, paternity must be proven or acknowledged. For example, if a man wants to voluntarily acknowledge paternity, then both parents must sign a Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity. It must then be notarized or witnessed and taken to the Bureau of Health Planning… Read More »
A divorce primer
Even if you never find yourself going through a divorce, chances are that someone close to you has been or will be. You might not know what to say to a friend who is experiencing this tumultuous time, so learning a bit more about it can be helpful when you need to comfort a… Read More »
What factors in to a child support decision?
If you and your spouse have a child and you decide it is time for a divorce, then child custody and child support will be issues that need to be handled. Child support is usually involved if one parent has sole custody and the other doesn’t. If the parents share custody, then child support… Read More »
Child support can apply even in the absence of marriage
Child support applies to a number of different cases, all with the intent of holding parents responsible for the financial support of their child or children. A child support order is issued by a judge, with this order serving as explicit direction by the judge for the parents to support their child up until… Read More »
Using child support: what can payments cover?
Child support, much like child custody, is a very tricky issue when it comes to divorce. The spouses will go into it likely not knowing what to expect, and the details in a child support agreement are crucial. How long will the payments last? How much will each payment be? Who will determine the… Read More »
Resolving child support issues
Divorcing parents in Nevada have a wide array of challenges before them as they begin to prepare for new lives. Some couples will opt to share custody, while others will decide on an arrangement involving a custodial parent and a noncustodial parent with visitation. In either situation, child support might be ordered by the… Read More »