Tag Archives: Child Support
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 »
Do you have to wait 3 years to get child support orders modified?
It can be difficult at times for most people to be as patient as they would like to be. Standing in line at a grocery store, waiting for a parking spot and counting the minutes in a doctor’s waiting room can all try a person’s patience. But when a parent believes they have good… Read More »
Is this the equivalent of 1,788,000 tweets?
Experts say we read 300 wpm. So that first sentence took about a second for the average person to read. In that second, 6,000 tweets were sent out, 5,000 social profiles were updated, 4,000 photos posted and 500 blogs put online. The same information wave rippled across the internet in each of the subsequent… Read More »
Protecting you, protecting your child
Clark County has a family law self-help website which dispenses some basic, very useful information. It tells you about child support information classes, and it tells you the maximum and minimum amounts of child support a divorcing parent can expect to receive in Nevada. Perhaps the best information from Clark County can be found… Read More »
The importance of properly preparing for child support matters
Among the things that will generally occur in a divorce case in which the divorcing individuals have minor children is that one of the two divorcing individuals will be ordered to pay child support. Here in Nevada, when a child support award is made through a decision by a court, the amount of the… Read More »