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 ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

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 ...

A MOTHER’S inheritance should be included in the calculation of her monthly payment for the support of her three children even though she spent the nearly $130,000 in setting up her new home in ...

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, ...