Sometimes, custody problems are evident immediately. Even though you and your child’s father may not be able to make it work romantically, though, that doesn’t mean that you’re doomed to fail at parenthood, too. Even though it’s scary and emotionally charged to discuss the possibility of having anything less than complete and total custody, for...
Child Support
The Virginia General Assembly recently voted to make changes to the Virginia child support statute, which hasn’t been significantly altered since 1988. It’s a pretty big deal! As you can probably imagine, the costs of living have risen in the years since 1988, and the costs of raising a child have raised along with it....
Your child’s father will have a child support obligation to your children until your child turns 19 or graduates high school, whichever occurs first. If your children are young, that’s a long time. Even when you and your husband were together, you probably worried about how you’d afford to give your children everything you always...
The kids are headed back to college, and the expenses are adding up. If you’re a single parent, the cost of college can be daunting, especially if your child’s other parent isn’t as interested in footing the bill as you are. As far as Virginia law is concerned, your child became an adult on the...
In Virginia, child support is designed to help the custodial parent manage the cost of having primary responsibility for raising the children. Since the custodial parent is responsible for the majority of the day-to-day expenses, like food and clothing, many parents really depend on the child support money to make ends meet. The child support...
Virginia child support was meant to help the custodial parent pay for the needs of the children following the divorce. Sometimes, the non-custodial parent becomes dissatisfied with how the recipient is spending the support, and seeks out provisions in Virginia child custody law that might demand accounting for payments. It’s understandable that someone paying child...
Virginia military divorce has its own unique set of rules and regulations that can make it seem more complicated than civilian divorce.If your ex-spouse is in the military and he’s behind on his child support payments, there’s a specific procedure you need to go through to collect what’s owed to you.First, you will need to...
When you and your spouse end your marriage, you will have the responsibility of supporting your children together even though you are no longer a couple. Virginia child support guidelines exist to make sure that children of divorced parents receive a fair and livable amount of monthly financial support. Many divorcing parents have questions about...