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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.
In United States law, the Bradley Amendment) is an amendment intended to improve the effectiveness of child support enforcement. It is named after Senator Bill Bradley , who introduced it. The Bradley Amendment requires state courts to prohibit retroactive reduction of child support obligations.
As of January 2003, her child support obligations totaled $12,886. Tolbert was ordered to pay $10,000 of his arrears to secure his release. He spent fifty-six days in jail in addition to the seventeen days he served waiting for a hearing before he was freed, apparently without making a payment toward his arrears.
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.
Child support is the obligation on parents to provide financial support for their children. OCSS was established with the Federal Government’s enactment of Child Support Enforcement and Paternity Establishment Program (CSE) in 1975, which was enacted to reduce welfare expenses by collecting child support from non-custodial parents.
Nov. 18—NEOSHO, Mo. — The Newton County prosecutor's office has dismissed child abuse charges that a Saginaw mother was facing and deferred prosecution of a related charge of child ...
Elijah Allman has filed to dismiss his divorce from wife Marieangela King as his mom, Cher, seeks a conservatorship over his estate.. Attorneys for Allman, 47, and King, 36, filed the paperwork on ...
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), passed in 1950, concerns interstate cooperation in the collection of spousal and child support. [1] The law establishes procedures for enforcement in cases in which the person owing alimony or child support is in one state and the person to whom the support is owed is in another state (hence the word "reciprocal").