Tag Archives: child support

DETROIT — Paul Olden walked out of prison last year with $26,000 in debt. Without knowing it, for years he racked up child support payments while he was behind bars. Olden was shocked to learn of his debt in 2012, ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — The court reaffirmed a prior decision holding veterans’ disability benefits are included in calculating child support. A 2017 decision from the United States Supreme Court, the court held, did not affect this holding because that decision did ...

Maryland’s child support guidelines should be redesigned to set payments by low-income parents on what they can actually afford rather than on a mathematical formula that considers their potential earnings, a poverty research organization has recommended in a report released ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — Distributions that a divorcing husband received from an “S” corporation should have been counted as part of his gross income for purposes of calculating his child support obligations, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided. The husband, ...

ROCHESTER, NY — The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department, has overturned a lower court ruling regarding which state law should govern a child support order. When Maria S. Brooks and Benjamin S. Brooks were divorced in New ...

BOSTON — A mother’s verbal promise to hold child support payments for the benefit of her son until he reached adulthood constituted an express trust that she violated by putting the money to her own use, a Probate & Family Court ...

Child care costs can take anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of a family’s income in Maryland, and they still need to be paid when parents divorce. Though child care costs continue to rise, so too have the number of ...

A man who signed affidavits of parentage identifying himself as the father of twin boys urged the state’s top court Friday to find that he is entitled to a paternity test, claiming he did not know he might not be ...

PHILADELPHIA — Television personality and actress Sherri Shepherd has been found legally responsible for a child born to a surrogate she and her ex-husband hired before they divorced, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled this week in upholding the surrogacy contract. ...

A father who attempted to deny legal responsibility for a child conceived through in vitro fertilization during a since-ended marriage is responsible for providing support to the child even though they are not biologically related, the Court of Special Appeals ...