Question: I have been paying my ex-wife cash for child support since I was laid off several years ago because the wage garnishment would not work anymore since there were not any paychecks. My ex-wife is now saying she will come after me and allege that I never paid and …
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Question: Child support is bankrupting me. I have a part-time job making minimum wage yet I am ordered to pay $500 a month in child support plus an extra $200 to cover arrears I accrued while unemployed. My wages are garnished along with them garnishing half of my unemployment benefits. …
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Question: My ex-wife’s parents have child custody of my 21-year-old daughter, who now has a child of her own and no longer lives with her grandparents. Seemingly out of nowhere, my paychecks started being garnished for child support even though it was determined my ex-wife should be the one paying …
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Child Support Laws Question: In the judgment terminating my child support payments, my ex-wife was ordered to pay for my “reasonable attorney fees” and a default order was entered “reserving” the issue of my child support overpayments. What does “reserving” the issue of overpayment mean, and how do I prove …
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By Christian D. Barnard Divorce lawyer, Cordell & Cordell Child support obligations are inescapable, and wage garnishments are one of the tools states use to ensure those payments are made. Many clients ask me how child support laws handle garnishing wages for the purposes of collecting child support. Some are …
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Question: I need financial advice on divorce. How do child support laws apply to wage garnishment? My oldest son is now emancipated so how do I get the child support agency from stop garnishing my paychecks?
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Question: Do child support laws allow for the garnishment of property to pay child support? I sold a piece of property, but the proceeds from the transaction were taken by the child support enforcement agency to pay my child support obligation. Is this legal?
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Question: Do child support laws recognize informal agreements? My ex-wife and I agreed to a child support amount that was different then the court-ordered amount, and I pay support directly to her. Now she is disputing the child support amount we agreed to and recently had my wages garnished for …
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Question: In my divorce agreement, I am supposed to pay $700 per month in child support and have that amount garnished from my income. However, I have three sources of income and each source is withholding $700 so I’m actually paying $2,100! How can I get each source of income …
CONTINUE READINGQuestion: I successfully won a custody modification and now my child solely resides with me. His mother must also pay me child support. Now that I no longer have to pay child support, will my state’s child support enforcement agency still garnish my wages because of my past child support …
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