State officials for the first time in decades are pushing a major overhaul of a system that touches one of the most volatile of all family issues: how child support is calculated. The move aims at ...

The average child support payment for a noncustodial parent is $430 a month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That comes to $5,160 a year, or more than $92,880 over 18 years, when a child becomes ...

In a previous blog entry, we talked about the problem with paying child support by cash. When a parent who is ordered to pay child support pays by cash, there is no record of the payment itself. In ...

Recently enacted changes to the state’s child support formula and guidelines should have a dramatic effect on the amount paid by high-income earners. The amendment – enacted in the previous ...

New child support guidelines that took effect July 1 have been largely well-received by Maryland family law practitioners, though some attorneys say they’ve encountered “glitches” in the formula used ...

The calculation of child support can be an important issue in resolving a divorce or custody case. Parties can often get into contentious disputes in terms of child support calculations. If parties ...

Every year, nearly 2.8 million people go through the emotionaland financial trauma of divorce. The average length of a marriagethat ends in divorce is less than 10 years. When a marriage ends, you ...