State officials for the first time in decades are pushing a major overhaul of a system that touches one of the most volatile of all family issues: how child support is calculated. The move aims at ...

In a previous blog entry, we talked about the problem with paying child support by cash. When a parent who is ordered to pay child support pays by cash, there is no record of the payment itself. In ...

Recently enacted changes to the state’s child support formula and guidelines should have a dramatic effect on the amount paid by high-income earners. The amendment – enacted in the previous ...

The average child support payment for a noncustodial parent is $430 a month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That comes to $5,160 a year, or more than $92,880 over 18 years, when a child becomes ...

In his commentary, Peter Galasso encourages the Judiciary and the Legislature to consider and act upon the need for a formulaic approach in setting the so-called ‘non-custodial’ parent’s child support ...

Significant changes in Minnesota’s child support laws, that go into effect Jan. 1, 2007, have the potential to change lives for parents who share children, but are not married. A new formula for ...

New child support guidelines that took effect July 1 have been largely well-received by Maryland family law practitioners, though some attorneys say they’ve encountered “glitches” in the formula used ...

Getting financial support calculations right in California really matters. If a parent pays too much, it can put a real dent ...

Every year, nearly 2.8 million people go through the emotionaland financial trauma of divorce. The average length of a marriagethat ends in divorce is less than 10 years. When a marriage ends, you ...

Mississippi is one of only four states where one parent's income is used to determine child support, and that keeps child support payments here higher than if both parents' incomes were used, ...