Modifying Child Support Based On Child Support Office’s Errors

Question: It has just come to my attention that I have overpaid my child support payments due to an incorrect wage garnishment of my military pay above the court-ordered amount. I filed the request months ago to stop my military wage garnishments and was told they would stop. I later …

Modification Of Child Support Arrears

Question: I am trying to modify my payments of child support arrears. I do owe the money and intend to pay it back, but the amount being garnished is too high for me to survive on. When trying to modify the child support amount, the child support enforcement unit said …

Child Support Arrears: Modifying Garnishments

Question: I am in child support arrears for my children who are all adults now. My only income is my disability payments and even that is being garnished. The garnishment is so high that I can barely survive off the little remaining income. How can I get this child support …

Dealing With Child Support Agencies To Modify Child Support

Question: I need to know the correct procedure I need to take to get back child support dropped or even modified. At the beginning of our marriage separation period she started receiving government assistance which in turn led to me having child support garnished from my paychecks. She said she …

Child Support: When Is A Child Considered Emancipated?

Question: My child support question is about the child support laws regarding emancipation. My daughter recently turned 18, which I thought was the age of emancipation, but she is still in high school. She graduates in May and has no plans for pursuing any further education. When should my child …

Legal Separation Advice: Getting Separated To Avoid Financial Consequences

Question: I’m looking for legal separation advice as a way to possible avoid wage garnishments. My husband’s wages are being garnished for income taxes. We were thinking of getting a legal separation in case my income could possibly become garnished as well if he does not fulfill his obligation. Would …

Child Support Arrears: Can They Garnish Your Bank Account?

Question: What are the legal collection methods for unpaid child support? I owe back child support and am paying through a wage garnishment. Can the child support enforcement agency also freeze or garnish my bank account to take those assets as well?

Child Support: Why The Need For Wage Garnishment

Question: My child support question is about wage garnishment. I have a monthly child support obligation that I have never failed to meet. Recently I switched from writing checks to paying electronically, and now my is refusing to accept the electronic checks. So the child support enforcement agency is now …

Garnishing Social Security Checks To Pay Back Child Support

Question: I owe back child support payments due to an arrearage building up when my children were younger and I was unable to pay. Recently, the child support agency has notified me of my outstanding balance for past child support obligations, even though my children are in their 40s now. …

Garnished Wages and Overpaid Child Support

Question: How do child support laws handle the wage garnishment termination for past due child support? I have paid off my child support arrears in whole. Yet, I continue to have money taken out of my paycheck via wage garnishment to the point that now I have overpaid my child …