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  • Military service may change child support obligations

    New Jersey residents who are members of the U.S. armed services or who may enlist in the military frequently have to deal with long absences from their families. These separations, however, are not the only changes that may occur as the result of military duty being activated. If you are required to pay child support, your service activation may result in the need for your support obligation to be ...
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  • Funding kids' sports after a divorce not always easy

    Like people all around the country, many New Jersey residents have excitedly been watching the 2016 summer Olympics. For families with kids deeply involved in sports and even showing glimmers of the rare talent and commitment required to pursue an Olympic path, kids and parents alike can become even more motivated. However exciting, that motivation generally comes at a pretty steep cost and is ...
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  • Try an app to help ease co-parenting burden

    Are you a divorced parent in New Jersey? Maybe you have to co-parent with a former partner whom you were never married to. Either way, you know the unique challenges that can arise when children have to go back and forth between two houses and costs, calendars and more must be tracked between those houses. The last thing you need is to face arguments with your children's other parent on a regular ...
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  • Paying child suport with 401K funds

    Have you recently gotten divorced? As a result of your divorce, have you been ordered to pay support for your minor child or children? Are you concerned about how in the world you might be able to afford to make these payments? If so, you are far from alone. Many a New Jersey mom or dad has been in your position before. How have they handled it? There is no one-size-fits answer to that question ...
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  • Does child support extend to a wedding?

    Nobody ever said that getting divorced was easy. Like other New Jersey residents, you may be somewhat relieved to know that you can move forward in some parts of your life but you may be understandably overwhelmed at the process of getting there. The ramifications of getting divorced can extend into virtually every part of your life, especially when you have children with your to-be former spouse. ...
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  • Options to receive awarded child support

    When a New Jersey parent is supposed to be paid child support from a former spouse or partner but does not receive the money, it can be hard to know what to do. As explained by the New Jersey Courts, both state and federal statutes give the New Jersey Child Support Enforcement Section the power to assist parents in securing these monies. There are many different actions that the state can take in ...
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  • Enforcement of child support payments in New Jersey

    New Jersey residents who rely on child support payments from a former spouse or partner know how important this money can be in order to appropriately care for children. When someone ordered to make child support payments fails to do so, financial challenges can develop for the parent who depends on this income. In some cases, people may even attempt to conceal funds in order to claim that they ...
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  • How do divorced parents pay for college?

    When parents with kids still at home get divorced, there is a seemingly unending list of things to be concerned about regarding the children. How will you and your ex-spouse provide two good homes for their children? Will the kids be able to continue in all of their current activities? Will there be enough money to still go on summer vacations? Too often, parents fail to consider an even bigger ...
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  • Paying for college through child support

    A good number of the Morristown clients that we work with here at Levine and Levine have been paying child support for many years. If this is the case with you, and you have a child nearing the end of his or her high school career, you may be curious as to whether or not you’ll be required to pay more to help to cover the cost of his or her college education. While one can’t truly put a price on ...
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  • Child support lawsuit filed against NBA star Dwight Howard

    Most may think that divorce cases involving child support in Morristown are fairly cut-and-dry, with the custodial parent only receiving enough from the paying parent to support their children’s needs. Yet in some cases, all children’s needs may not be equal. If there are special circumstances that warrant the payment of more child support, the custodial parent may choose to seek it. In some ...
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  • Report: More mothers failing to pay child support

    It is commonly held that men are responsible for more delinquent child support payments than men. In New Jersey and across the country, the term “deadbeat dad” is often thrown around to describe a man who shirks his responsibility. However, a recent report from NPR demonstrates that women actually fail to pay child support at a higher rate than men do. According to data from the U.S. Census ...
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  • Over a dozen arrested for child support violations in New Jersey

    From everyday expenses to unexpected medical expenses, there are many reasons why people who owe child support struggle to make their monthly payments. However, in Morristown and throughout the state of New Jersey, failure to pay child support can have serious penalties, such as jail time. As a result, it is very important for parents who are having difficulty making their child support payments ...
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  • What factors are considered when determining child support in NJ?

    At Levine and Levine, we know that child support is almost always a sticky issue between Morris County parents that are no longer living together. While some parents are able to overcome their differences and make the best out of a difficult situation, sometimes the parent that has been ordered to pay child support does not want to comply, or simply doesn’t have the funds to fulfill his or her ...
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  • Halle Berry asks court to greatly reduce child support payment

    In most relationships involving child support payments the norm is that the father is ordered to pay money to his ex-wife in order to help support their children. However, not all cases in the Morris County area follow the norm and there are other kinds of family dynamics that involve child support issues, including situations where fathers ask for child support. According to reports, actress ...
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  • Authorities arrest four people for unpaid child support

    When a couple with children in the Morris County area splits up typically the parent who is the primary income-earner will be ordered to pay child support. Child support is a very serious matter. However, sometimes the parent who has been ordered to pay decides not to comply for a variety of possible reasons. If a person chooses not to pay court-ordered child support he or she could face serious ...
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  • Authorities allow delinquent child support parents a deal

    Although most parents know that children of divorce need love and support, things don’t always go the way they are supposed to when a couple divorces. One of the biggest issues in these kinds of situations is determining how much monthly child support one parent will have to pay the other, and then making sure that parent pays. However, when a parent in Morris County does not pay the ordered ...
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  • Richards plans to take Sheen to court over unpaid child support

    When a couple divorces or separates, emotions can run high, especially when children are involved. It is not uncommon to hear about a parent in Morris County, New Jersey who tries to use his or her children to punish the other parent. This type of behavior is irresponsible and not only has the potential to do real damage to your children, but it also can get you in trouble with the law. Charlie ...
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  • R. Kelly in hot water over unpaid child support

    Many divorced or separated parents in Morris County, New Jersey rely heavily on child support payments to make ends meet. After all, the cost of raising a child in this day and age is not cheap. When child support is not paid, it can put the custodial parent in a real bind and make it difficult to provide for the children in his or her care. Andrea Kelly, former wife of singer R. Kelly and mother ...
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  • Father jailed over child support mix-up

    Imagine working hard at your job in Morris County, New Jersey in order to pay your child support payments every month only to find out that you are being sued by your ex-spouse for unpaid child support. This sounds like an impossibility, but for one man, this is exactly what happened. The man’s child support was supposed to be taken out of his paycheck each week, so likely the man thought that it ...
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  • Marc Anthony's ex demands $99,000 increase in child support

    Readers in Morris County are likely aware that judges in family law courts throughout the U.S. regularly issue orders for parents to pay child support. While these judges use factors including income and expenses to determine the amount of these payments, there are some situations where a parent may feel that they are owed more and could choose to take legal action to try and get it. Although she ...
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  • Multi-state child support disputes show weaknesses in system

    Child support and custody issues can be some of the most complicated family legal issues in Morris County, and throughout the U.S. This is not only because sorting out these issues can often be very complex and emotional for those involved, but also because in many cases, enforcing the decisions that are made can be somewhat difficult. A child support dispute between a man living in Alaska and his ...
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  • Timbaland's wife asks him to pay support for son from another man

    Readers in Morris County are likely aware that when parents decide to raise their child apart, one may be ordered by the court to make monthly payments to the custodial parent. What may come as a surprise, however, is that there are some cases where a person who is not the biological, or adoptive, parent of a child, may be asked to pay child support for a child who they had helped to raise. ...
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  • Woman gets major win in child support case against Blue Cross

    In Florham Park, as well as throughout the U.S., in the event they are no longer raising their child as a couple, parents may be ordered to make monthly child support payments to help with the everyday expenses and other costs of raising their child or children. If a person becomes delinquent, the parent who is owed the support payments could choose to take legal action to have wages garnished or ...
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  • Man obligated to pay child support to ex-wife's child

    It is the responsibility of New Jersey parents to ensure that their children are clothed, fed, sheltered, and cared for. After a divorce, these obligations become more complicated. In many cases, one parent spends less time with the children but bears more of the financial costs of raising the children. Because the children often depend on this money to cover their basic necessities, failure to ...
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  • Charlie Sheen seeks child support modification

    In many divorce cases, one parent becomes the custodial parent and the other parent supports the children financially. However, if the custodial parent relinquishes his or her parental rights, child support payments may no longer be required. It is up to judges in New Jersey to determine the best arrangements for the children of divorced parents. Following their divorce, actor Charlie Sheen and ...
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