What rights does a non-custodial parent have? If you are the custodial parent of a child, you know that you have to make many important decisions for that child and care for them on a full-time schedule. You might wonder what role the other parent in your parenting relationship fulfills, and what it means for… Continue reading →
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I Am a Custodial Parent, What Are My Responsibilities?
If you are the custodial parent of your child, you have a very important job – in fact, you might find that there are several. If you are the custodial parent, this means that the courts have given you primary legal or physical custody of your child. Of course, every relationship is different when you… Continue reading →
When Your Child Has Uninsured Medical Expenses
What happens if you have gone through a divorce and your child has uninsured medical expenses? This could become a matter of attention when you have entered the divorce process with your spouse and child support is in the works. Uninsured medical expenses are usually figured in with child support and are medical expenses that… Continue reading →
When am I Allowed to Deny Visitation Rights by the Other Parent?
If you have no custody order in place, usually anything is fair game. However, once that order is in place and instructing you on where your child goes at any given time, it is important to abide by what appears within. If your ex has a scheduled visitation with the child and you deny this… Continue reading →
Can I Deny my Ex-Spouse Visitation?
Denying visitation is a big issue among custodial parents. Often a parents believes they have justifiable rights for denying visitation to their ex-spouse, but the law prohibits it. Unless the court has granted a child custody modification for new visitation rights, you are not allowed to deny visitation. The courts frown upon making decisions like… Continue reading →
Unmarried Parents and Child Support
In every state, parents are required to support their children. Therefore, parents are required to pay child support even if they were never married. If one parent financially supports the child more than the other, then the non-custodial parent will have to pay child support. Amount of support is determined depends on how much each… Continue reading →
I’m Unemployed-How Do I Pay Child Support?
In California, child support is based on an algebraic formula which takes into account a variety of factors including each parent’s tax filing status and average monthly income. Child support is usually awarded to the parent with whom the child spends the majority of his or her time with, called the custodial parent, and is… Continue reading →
Do I have To Pay Child Support?
Every child deserves his or her parent’s support – both emotional and financial. Both parents are required to support their child until he or she reaches the age of 18, graduates from high school, marries, emancipates or joins the military. The non-custodial parent is required to pay a reasonable amount of child support to the… Continue reading →
Can I claim my child as a dependent?
According to the Federal Tax Code Section 152(e), “A custodial parent is generally entitled to the personal exemption for a qualifying child when the child: · is under the age of 19 at the end of the tax year · is under the age of 24 and a full-time student · is your biological, adopted,… Continue reading →
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