Category Archives: Child Support
What Happens If You Fail To Pay Child Support?
During a divorce that involves children, the courts often order one of the parents to pay child support. State law in Pennsylvania stipulates that all parents must financially support their children until they are no longer minors. Child support orders issued during divorce are final and legally binding. While the initial amount of support… Read More »
How Long Do Parents Have To Pay Child Support In Media?
In Media, as throughout the rest of Pennsylvania, parents have an obligation to financially support their child. Parents must provide support regardless of their relationship with the child, or if they divorce the child’s other parent. Even if visitation with the child is prohibited by the courts, or a parent chooses not to spend… Read More »
Do The Family Courts Ever Deviate From The Child Support Formula?
When people have children together and their relationship does not last, one person is generally required to pay child support to the other. The family courts will start any child support case using a formula as outlined in state law. Still, there are times when judges will deviate from the formula and issue an… Read More »
Steps To Take If You Do Not Pay Child Support
When two married people have children together and they get a divorce, one parent is often ordered to pay child support. All parents in Delaware County, and throughout Pennsylvania, have a legal obligation to financially provide for their children until they are no longer minors. Once a child support order is issued by a… Read More »
Child Support Guidelines For Pennsylvania Parents
In life, we encounter many milestones that require us to learn new concepts and develop a sense of how particular aspects of our society operate. While some of these milestones are positive (e.g. marriage, the birth of a child), others such as divorce can be stressful and complicated for the uninformed. When the divorcing… Read More »
Child Custody FAQs For Pennsylvania Residents
In contemporary American culture, it is considered the new normal for both parents to share in the duties of raising a child. From the first dirty diaper to the time they go off to college and beyond, parents must function as a team in order to foster their child’s healthy social and personal development. … Read More »
Understanding Child Support In Pennsylvania
For many couples in Pennsylvania, the decision to get married comes from a place of wanting to merge finances, become a team, and raise a child. While for some couples this decision and its ramifications lead to a happy and healthy life together, for others the situation sours and spouses decide to file for… Read More »
Must You Pay Child Support if You Are Incarcerated?
No one plans on being incarcerated. Nevertheless, millions of parents in the United States go to jail each year, leaving behind children who continue to need their parent’s financial support. At Barbara Flum Stein & Associates, we help parents navigate their child support obligations. Getting sent to prison for a simple mistake can happen… Read More »
When Does My Child Support Obligation End?
Parents are not legally required to support their children forever, which means the obligation to pay child support must end at some point. A question always arises: When? This is a complicated area of law and there is no one, simple answer. Instead, we need to answer several questions first. If you need help… Read More »
Deviations from the Child Support Formula
Pennsylvania has taken a lot of the guesswork out of child support determinations by creating guidelines. A judge will most often plug in several numbers to a calculator to arrive at an amount that the non-custodial parent must pay every month. However, judges do have the power to deviate from the guideline amount up… Read More »
