Category Archives: Child Support
When Your Ex-Spouse Refuses to Communicate About Your Child’s Special Medical Needs and Expenses
For many families, summer camp is a luxury. You might expect that, if an appeals court needed to resolve a dispute between divorced parents over reconciling a child’s plans to attend a residential summer camp with parenting schedules and child support, it would be in a high net worth divorce where the court’s recitation… Read More »
Yes, You Can Go to Jail for Failure to Pay Child Support, but the Presumption of Innocence Applies
How ugly can battles over child support get? Pretty ugly, in fact. The cases where one spouse threatens to take the children and disappear are quite rare, but years-long court battles where ex-spouses accuse each other of being gold diggers or deadbeats are more common. No one, least of all judges, wants to hear… Read More »
Child Support Obligations Do Not Automatically Stop When the Child Turns Eighteen
Parents often feel that their children grow up too quickly, but when you are thinking in terms of child support obligations, the day when your children become legally financially independent of you cannot come soon enough. Even if your children still need help from you financially after they turn eighteen, at least you can… Read More »
Maher v. Woodruff: How Changes in Your Financial Situation and in the Law Affect Alimony and Child Support Payments
Many financial agreements can be negotiated, but the rules about child support in Tennessee are quite fixed. Every successful entrepreneur knows how to talk his or her way into paying less than the sticker price, and everyone who has ever deposited a tax refund check has only been able to do so because of… Read More »
Myths and Facts About Child Support in Tennessee
Filling out child support forms and getting mail related to child support can feel like dealing with the IRS, except that the geyser of official correspondence packed with fine print is connected in some way to a personal enemy of yours, instead of just to a faceless bureaucracy. Child support disputes are fuel for… Read More »