CA Child Support facts you must know.

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CA Child Support facts you must know.

If you are divorcing now or may be in the near future, we can help ease your fears about excessive or inadequate spousal support and/or child support payments.

Free Legal Aid provides useful information about child custody. In addition to the video here, be sure you check out other resources.

Guides to Separation & Divorce

Separation and divorce have a profound impact on families. This information helps parents guide their children through separation and divorce, and calculate a child support amount to cover the costs of raising their children. Check to learn more.

Custody & Parenting Time (Visitation)

Here you can learn about child custody and parenting time (also called "visitation") cases, how to prepare a parenting plan for you and your children, and how to get or change a court order. You can also find many resources to help you and your children through your separation or divorce. Check to learn more.

Basics of Custody & Visitation Orders

In California, either parent can have custody of the children, or the parents can share custody. The judge makes the final decision about custody and visitation but usually will approve the arrangement (the parenting plan) that both parents agree on. Check to learn more.

Child Custody in California: Best Interests of the Child

Judges evaluating custody cases in California must consider the best interests of the children in reaching a conclusion about how parents will share time with the children. California courts must consider certain factors that affect a child’s health and safety. Check to learn more.

 

 

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Back Child Support
Posted By Fair Cadora, APC

Due to the difficulty of calculating incomes, necessary expenses, and various costs of each spouse after a divorce, many divorces actually end without establishing child support payments. Only later when it becomes clear that the primary custodial parent needs financial assistance from their ex-spouse does child support come fully into view. This can lead to the question of back child support, or child support payments the receiving spouse would have obtained had child support been calculated and established the moment the divorce was filed or finalized. In many cases, the spouse who ends up paying child support will not feel obligated to pay back child support, so what can be done to collect it? To learn more, click www.faircadora.com.