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Coral Springs Divorce Attorney Scott Stadler
1750 University Drive
Suite 202
Coral Springs, FL 33071
ph: (954) 346-6464

Child Support

You and your spouse each have a responsibility to support your children in accordance with their needs and your financial abilities. Child support may be by direct payment, such as cash or check, or by indirect benefits, such as mortgages payments and insurance. Ordinarily the obligation to support a child ends when that child reaches eighteen, marries, or becomes financially independent. However, child support may continue beyond the child's eighteenth birthday. If the child is still in high school after turning eighteen and has a reasonable likelihood of graduating, than child support continues until the child graduates, but child support does not continue beyond the child's nineteenth birthday. In addition to basic child support, the parents have an obligation to pay for daycare expenses and medical expenses of the child.

Factors for consideration when the child support guidelines may be adjusted:

1. Independent income of the child;

2. Any special needs of the family;

3. Extraordinary medical, psychological, educational, or dental expenses;

4. The custodial parent receiving both child support and spousal support;

5. Seasonal variations in a parent's income or expenses;

6. The age of the child, taking into consideration the greater needs of older children

7. The terms of any shared parental arrangement;

8. The total assets of the parents and the child;

9. The impact of the IRS dependency exemption and waiver of that exemption;

10. When the application of the child support guidelines requires a person to pay another person more than 55% of his or her gross income for child support;

11. Any other adjustment which is needed to achieve an equitable result which may include, but is not limited to, a reasonable and necessary existing expense or debt. Health insurance for the child and life insurance covering the life of the parent may be ordered to pay support. Child support payments may be ordered to be paid through a state depository.

  • Records to keep when you pay or receive alimony or child support payments :

    • Keep a list for all your payments: write down the check or money order number, date, account number, and name of the bank. better yet keep a copy of each cancelled check.

    • Write on each check which month the money is for.

    • Get a signed receipt by the recipient for any cash payments.

Florida Divorce Attorney Scott Stadler

1750 University Drive,Suite 202

Coral Springs, FL 33071 

Tel: (954) 346-6464

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"Child support is governed by Florida Statute, and is determined by applying a mathematical formula using the "child support guidelines."

 

 

The mathematical formula takes into account a variety of factors including but not limited to:

  1. Net monthly income

  2. Daycare and/or aftercare expenses

  3. Health insurance

   4.    Time sharing

   5.    Paid court ordered alimony   

   6. Court Ordered child support actually paid (from another relationship)

The court can deviate from the guidelines for a variety of reasons, including but not necessarily limited to, the cost of transportation for out-of-state parents, special needs of the child, (medical / educational), the payor's ability to meet his/her basic living expenses, time sharing schedule and any other relevant factor. We use the latest in technology to calculate child support, alimony, and the related tax effects.

Broward County divorce attorney Scott Stadler's office is located in Coral Springs, Florida, and he serves clients in South Florida including Fort Lauderdale, Aventura, Hollywood, Davie, Margate, Tamarac, Parkland, Coconut Creek, Deerfield Beach, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach. The firm serves all of Broward County, and Palm Beach County, Florida.

 

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Coral Springs Divorce Attorney Scott Stadler
1750 University Drive
Suite 202
Coral Springs, FL 33071
ph: (954) 346-6464