Effective Jan. 1, Georgia passed new child support laws that do away with the old formula for calculating support amounts.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...