Family Law
Divorce
Probate
Personal Injury
Child support exists to help fund a child’s needs but might not be enough to help them live a full life. How are these needs calculated? The result could seriously impact your daily finances and your taxes. What factors contribute to child support?Both parents...
As a parent, your first concern is the welfare of your children. During a divorce, you want to help them understand and shield them from as much drama as possible. You would also like to keep their lives as much the same as you can.If you are the primary custodial...
The devil, it's often said, is in the details. One context in which this can be true is in child support payments following divorce. Even if you and your ex are in agreement about what those payments should be, the logistics of implementing a workable arrangement can...
For decades, getting a college degree has been a pathway to becoming or remaining middle class in America. Six years after the Great Recession ended, there is increasing doubt about how well that path still works. Many students get saddled with untenable debt loads...
Ohio residents who are fans of the popular television show "The View" may be interested to learn that former co-host Sherri Shepherd, who left the show in 2014, was recently ordered to pay child and spousal support to her ex-husband. Although Ms. Shepherd is famous...
Several states, including Ohio, are looking into new ways to help fathers who are behind on child support payments get back on track. The methods are intended to help men who want to meet their payment obligations but simply lack the money. For example, Maryland has...
The Obama administration has announced a program that will launch in 2017 and that will allow people who are incarcerated to temporarily suspend their child support payments. The parents will need to report that their incarceration is involuntary, and doing so will...
When a parent's financial circumstances have changed since a child support order was issued in their divorce case, where to file the request for modification can be a real question when they have relocated to Ohio from the state that issued the original order. There...
Ohio parents who either owe or receive child support may relate to the frustrations many people feel over how those payments affect their financial circumstances. Public perception on a national level has been showed to be negative as individuals' perspectives of...
Throughout Ohio and the rest of the country, much of the child support that has been ordered remains unpaid. In fact, only about 61 percent of child support ordered of men had been paid to the mothers of their children in 2011. A new study looked at other...
