It can be frustrating when a Pennsylvania parent does not pay their child support. You may wonder if there is anywhere that you can turn to in order to collect what you are owed. In fact, there are a number of actions that you can take. Contempt of court for unpaid...
Many single parents in New Jersey and Pennsylvania rely on monthly child support checks to help them pay for their children's expenses. If your former spouse stops paying child support, you might be scrambling to pay your monthly bills. Could you withhold visitation...
Whether you are paying child support or receiving it every month, it has a major impact on your budget. Parents in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who receive or pay child support often struggle with the best way to figure this court-mandated payment into their monthly...
Divorcing couples in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have many changes to make, including to their finances. If you have children and you're considering a divorce or breakup, you've most likely thought about child support and whether you'll be the one to pay or receive...
A recent case decided in New Jersey courts could have a significant impact on divorced parents who are ordered to pay support to their children. Child support can sometimes be a contentious issue, but decisions made by the court will always take the stance that the...
There was a time when debtor's prison was a fairly common term. If a person failed to pay his or her debts in New Jersey, he or she would likely have been sentenced to spend time in debtor's prison. Being jailed for failure to pay is a less common occurrence in...
A decision to divorce in New Jersey can lead to many difficult and complex decisions regarding a couple's newly single lives moving forward. One crucial issue concerns the care of children. Child custody and child support decisions are vitally important to the...
New Jersey Courts are authorized to impute income for the purpose of determining child support when a parent is found to be voluntarily unemployed or underemployed without cause. See Caplan v. Caplan,182 N.J. 250, 268-70, 864 A.2d 1108 (2005) (stating parent's ability...
N.J.S.A. 2A:17-56.67(a)(1) sets the age of 19 for termination of child support unless, among other things, a different date is ordered by the court, "which shall not extend beyond the date the child reaches the age of 23. A court, however, can order continued...
It is widely known that children can suffer the consequences of a divorce. All too often, these consequences are the result of a failure of one parent to pay child support. There can be legitimate reasons for an inability to pay, and if something occurs that would...
