Category: Child Support

Every biological parent has an obligation to take care of their child unless they sign over their parental rights. A judge generally orders non-custodial parents to pay child support to cover their child’s basic necessities. It’s often difficult for parents to understand what might fall under this umbrella. What are the basic expenses that child…

The child support that you get probably only covers a small amount of the costs that you incur every month while taking care of your kids. While getting some support from your ex is better than getting no support at all, it can feel very frustrating to have to scrape by while your ex only…

When you divorced, child support payments were set based upon your financial situation at the time. However, this year, you lost your job and have only been able to pick up work that pays less. It seems unreasonable to expect you to pay the same as when you were a high earner. Regardless of whether…

Even though Colorado has standard child support guidelines which are supposed to make child support orders predictable and fair, they do not always make figuring child support easy. For example, many Colorado residents will have some special situation that makes calculating their income more difficult than just referring to a recent paycheck. For child support…

Each year many parents in Colorado face an issue that can cause stress and contention: child support. Whether the parents of the child in question were ever married or not, a split in the relationship will likely lead one of the parents to make a claim for child support from the other parent. A demand…

Whether two Colorado parents are married, separated, or divorced, they are both expected to contribute to the financial needs of their children. That means that if the parents live apart from each other they must work out an arrangement to share money between themselves that is dedicated to the needs of their kids. The legal…

When parents in Colorado divorce, they may be worried about the process of negotiating child support. Unfortunately, media depictions of adversarial divorces may be the cause of this concern. While court battles between a divorcing couple may attract public interest, the reality is that many parents can amicably negotiate child support payments between themselves. Even…

Colorado residents who are seeking child support may need to establish paternity. This is true if the alleged father of the child was not married to the mother at the time of conception or birth. In most cases, DNA tests are used to establish paternity because of their high degree of accuracy. Tests are generally…

In Colorado and across the United States, failure to pay child support becomes an issue when it is difficult to find the supporting parent. It is important to ascertain the noncustodial parent’s physical address, and locating the noncustodial parent involves research via various documents. Providing information to the county Child Support Enforcement Unit can help…

When you got married, getting divorced one day was not an option in your mind. However, things happen and life changes, sometimes in very unexpected ways. When you made the decision to divorce, you were worried how it might affect your children. The good news is that children are highly adaptable. When kids have difficulty…