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Parents - Paying Child Maintenance |
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| Date Added: June 29, 2010 02:37:46 PM | |
| Author: elkla89 | |
| Category: Health: Health Care | |
Both parents have a lawful responsibility to support their child according to their ability to do so. As a rule, jurisdictions have child maintenance regulations in effect, which provide a formula for calculating child support grounded on a proportion of each parent's gross income. Such issues are rarely a concern for the court when parents are bound by marriage or committed relationship. But when parents end their relationship or cease to live together with their children as a family, a non-custodial parent is obliged to pay child support to a custodial parent. Like the issue of custody, this can be settled out of court or by fighting it out in front of a judge. Child support payments, like alimony, may be included into the divorce judgment or may be provided for in a marital separation agreement. This arguable issue can be avoided, provided both parents decide on the proper sum of child maintenance and make this agreement part of an MSA. Parents' other lawful responsibilities will also be taken into account in deciding on child support. For instance, if a parent is paying child maintenance from a previous relationship, the court will take that duty into consideration. Living expenses, including food and rent will also be taken into account by the judge. Yet, the court will not decrease child maintenance payments to make it easier for the non-custodial parent to pay discretionary obligations. For the court to decide on the proper amount of child maintenance, both parents will be required by the court to fill out a financial declaration. Each parent will be required to fully reveal their income, the nature and extent of their property holdings, such as current accounts, investments and real property and their financial obligations. These documents will be heavily rested on by the court in making the order and, therefore, it is in the children's interests that the declarations be completed completely and honestly. Those who deliberately avoid paying child support can be punished. If the custodial parent submits a complaint to the district attorney's office, the nonpaying parent can be taken to court In the United States if the nonpaying parent is found guilty, he or she may be imprisoned. Or, the guilty parent may be sentenced to probation and allowed to stay free, providing he or she pays all back child support and makes all future payments in time. |
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