Top Child Support Payment Questions

Questions and Answers About Child Support Payments

More and more couples are divorcing. Child support is part of the divorce process. Read the top child support payment questions and answers. Child support can become very complicated. These questions and answers are few of the top questions and answers. Always seek the advice of a professional legal advisor before making legal decisions and following legal advice.

Q: How long do you have to make child support payments?

A: Child support payments are made until the child is of majority age. If the child is special needs or medical conditions, the child support payments could be even longer. Child support payments continue until the child enters the active military duty. If the parent making payment has their rights terminated, the child support stops. Parents required to make payments are committed for a very long time.

Q: Who is required to pay the child support?

A: If sole custody is granted the parent that does not have custody pays the child support.

If there is joint custody, a few things are factored into the equation to decide which parent will pay the child support. The courts look at the percentage of income made by both parents. They also look at how much time the child is spending in each household.

Q: What is "acknowledged father"?

A: An acknowledged father is one that the couple has agreed is the father of the child. It can be admission of being the father. Another form of acknowledged father is the man that is put on the birth certificate as the father of the child.

Q. Do acknowledged fathers have to pay child support?

A: In the majority of states and situations, the acknowledged father has to pay child support. Even if blood paternity tests prove otherwise, most cases of acknowledge fathers are required top pay child support.

Q. What happens when the child lives in the house but the man's name is not on the birth certificate?