Dealing with a malicious co-parent can put you on your guard. Unfortunately, this often ends up being in your best interest. After all, malicious co-parents often wish to harm you in any way they can. To reach that end, they may even harm your child. This often...
How do judges decide child support amounts?
As part of your divorce, you must share custody of the children you share with your soon-to-be-ex. You know you must pay child support, but you do not know how much. What factors affect child support amounts? Forbes explores the question in depth. Learn how to prepare...
Temporary hardship and your child support obligations
If your job is temporarily on hold or you are unable to work for another reason, you may have a hard time paying child support. Even though you may expect to resume receiving a regular paycheck soon, simply not making child support payments is not an option. You need...
When can child support payments be modified?
When Washington parents divorce, the court decides on a child support payment amount. But courts understand that life is always changing. The circumstances at the time of your divorce may not always be true. Because of that, parents can sometimes request child support...
How is income determined for child support?
Determining the income of the parents is an important step in determining child support. When child support services or a court needs to figure the income of each parent, there are several ways in which to do so. If you have concerns that the other parent may not...
How does child support modification work?
When you get a divorce in Washington, there are two ways to establish child support: an administrative order and a court order. In both of these processes, the terms of the child support order use your current income and living situation to calculate the payment...
When can a judge override the standard child support calculation?
You may already know about the calculations that Washington has for child support. However, there are a number of reasons that a judge may deviate from the standard calculation. Here is what the Washington State Legislature has to say about standards for deviation...
How is child support determined in Washington?
If you are going through a divorce with children, it is possible that the court will issue a child support order. Child support payments are set up on the legal premise that parents have a duty to support their children. If the court determines that whoever ends up...
Summer Plans
Working parents always face the decision of what to do with their school aged children during the summer break from school. Do you place them in day care, camp, or send them to a relative's home? It is even more complicated when the parents are divorced. As they age...
