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In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer) to an "obligee" (or receiving party or recipient) for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or a (possibly terminated) marriage.
Child support may be ordered to be paid by one parent to another when one is a non-custodial parent and the other is a custodial parent. Similarly, child support may also be ordered to be paid by one parent to another when both parents are custodial parents (joint or shared custody) and they share the child-raising responsibilities.
Without effective Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems, many women cannot gain access to social protection, health care, or economic and social opportunities. These negative effects of being unregistered can extend to a woman’s children, who often depend on their mother for access to health care, education, and protection. [8]
A Texas child support court ruled in 2003 that Gabriel Cornejo, 45, had to pay child support to his ex-girlfriend who had recently given birth to a daughter because she swore there was no way ...
A Florida man has been forced to pay child support even though a DNA test proved that he is not the child's biological father, First Coast News reports. Last year, Joseph Sinawa, of St. Augustine ...
In cases not concerning child support (for children below 18) or vulnerable adults, both parties may choose the law governing the maintenance, choosing from: law of nationality (of one of the parties) law of the habitual residence (of one of the parties) law applied to their property regime; law applied to their divorce or legal separation
In extreme cases, one parent may accuse the other of trying to "turn" the child(ren) against him or her, allege some form of emotional, physical, or even sexual abuse by the other parent, the "residential" parent may disrupt the other parent's contact or communication with the child(ren), or a parent may remove the child from the jurisdiction ...
The court may award child support as far as three years back before the case was started. The amount of child support depends on the particular custody arrangement, parents’ net income and whether they have other support obligations. A failure to pay child support in line with final judgement is a crime punishable by up to three years in ...