Can a supporting spouse choose to leave his job?

He can do as he likes with his life, but he may have a burden convincing a judge to lower his obligations, which would pile up forever, like a...

Is child support and medical 2 separate payments?

If there's an order for you to pay a certain amount of money every month, you have to pay it, and if you also ordered to provide medical insurance,...

Does my filing status impact my child and spousal support calculations?

Child support is based on the amount of money available to each parent after necessary deductions. Tax status as single or married affects how...

Which parent does the child live with until child custody hearing...

Now you may have a good reason for an emergency order, even though you didn't before. Ex parte emergency orders aren't just a way to jump the...

How do I get half of proceeds from sale of house after divorce if ex husbands attorney is holding in trust fund?

Something is amiss - no attorney should hold funds that long without a reason, and you need to check it. Have a family law attorney review the...

You can base attorney fee requests two ways, one to balance out the burden on the lower-income spouse per FC 2030, and that balancing is largely...

When two kids are recieving survivors benifits and one stop due to turning 18 does the other childs benifits go up

First I assume this is one of the 99% of such questions that ask about SSDI, not a private plan, SSI, or SDI (those have different rules). If so,...

Child Support if I am no longer the Custodial parent and the Non-Custodial parent owes arrears, how does child support work?

Courts look to the welfare of the children first and make sure that if someone has to come out short, it won't be the kids (or at least that's the...

Other parent is informing me that exchanges will be recorded by him from now on. Do I leave it be, or request him not to?

the usual way Sacramento courts handle this kind of situation, if it gets bad enough, is to tighten up on communications and exchanges. You can...

Does paying for a private school for a minor child discount the amount of child support?

The court will not ordinarily order parents to keep a child in a private school unless there is some special need. The child support is a specific...