New child support guidelines in Minnesota will begin starting Jan. 1. The new guidelines come with 2021 legislation based on recommendations from the Minnesota Child Support Task Force with the goal ...

For the past several decades the “alimony deduction” has been available to all divorcing couples. This deduction provided that the spouse making alimony payments could deduct alimony payments from his ...

Determining child support is a tricky process, especially when exacerbated by the stress of divorce and custody battles. When your economic future and that of your child comes down to a formula, some ...

The intermediate appellate court remanded a decision of the Kent County Circuit Court ordering Richard H. Beck Jr. to pay his former wife Kimberly Ann Beck a mere $700 per month in child support. In ...

Federal law requires that states establish guidelines for child support. Pennsylvania's child and spousal support statute, 23 Pa.C.S. Section 4322(a), provides for a Supreme Court rule establishing a ...

When divorcing couples have minor children, frequently the amount of child support is an issue in the divorce. In Arizona, child support can be estimated using the Arizona Child Support guidelines.

Three major child support guideline models are currently used in the United States to stimulate adequate levels of child support. To evaluate the effects of these guidelines, we examined cases filed ...

New child support guidelines go into effect this January. The Kansas Judicial Branch defines guidelines as, “rules judges follow to decide how much child support each parent is to pay toward raising ...

Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2, Current Issues in Child Support & Spousal Support (Summer 2011), pp. 135-156 (22 pages) ...

I think my ex is earning more money than when we got divorced but I’ve been reluctant to take him back to court to try to get more child support in case I am wrong. I can’t afford to be wrong but at ...