Child Support

The court will order the obligor to maintain or obtain coverage for the child if health insurance is available for the child through his employer at a reasonable cost. If health insurance is not available through obligor’s but available through the other parent’s employment or a...

The court will determine the obligor’s net resources as outlined above; however, the court will assign a different percentage to be paid towards the child support to be paid.  For example, if an obligor had 1 child with one mother who was seeking support and...

Yes, the court may order retroactive support.  When determining whether child support is appropriate, the court will look at whether the mother made efforts to notify the obligor that he was the father; whether the obligor had knowledge that he was the father; whether imposing...

If the court determines that obligor is intentionally unemployed or underemployed in an attempt to reduce child-support payments, the court’s wage and salary income calculations are not limited to actual earnings.  If the court determines that obligor has intentionally chosen to not earn as much...

The parent who will be ordered to pay child support is known as the obligor.  The person who will receive child support is called the obligee. To determine the amount of child support, the first thing that the court will do is determine obligor’s net resources. ...