A Child Support Lawyer Can Help You Receive Financial Support For Your Children

A child support lawyer from the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig Law Firm can help you with receive financial support for your children. Until your children are considered adults, as determined by your state of residence, they need financial support from both of their parents. A child support lawyer from the Levy Craig family law team in Kansas City makes client satisfaction, good communication, and strong, effective advocacy a top priority.

 

Child support is calculated using state guidelines which consider many factors such as:

 

1.    The income or earning potential of each parent;

2.    The cost of the children’s health and dental insurance;

3.    The cost of childcare when the parents are working; and

4.    The parenting schedule and the amount of time the children spend with each parent.

 

What is child support meant to cover? A child support lawyer from the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig knows that child support is for the direct expenses of the child such as school lunches, clothes, haircuts, etc.  It also helps with indirect expenses such as housing, utilities, transportation and insurance.  Parents typically share the costs of medical and dental treatment for their children, such as co-pays, deductibles and prescription medication, in addition to child support.

 

There are many ways to pay child support. In many cases, there is an income withholding order, directing the employer of the paying parent to withhold child support from their paycheck to pay the support to the state agency who sends the payment to the receiving parent. 

 

Sometimes, parents prefer to have the paying parent set up an automatic debit so payments are automatically sent from one parent’s bank account to the other. Child support lawyers can help you receive the money needed to raise your children.

 

Other areas included are the children’s extracurricular activities. Unless the parents agree to share the costs of the children’s activities or the court orders the parents to share these costs, it is typically the responsibility of the parent getting support to pay for the children’s extracurricular activities.

 

Circumstances can change, and child support can be modified or changed when there is a significant change in circumstance, such as a substantial change in income received by one of the parents, increased health insurance costs, increase or decrease of work-related childcare, etc. Each state has its own requirements for a modification. A child support lawyer from the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig in Kansas City can help when these types of situations arise.

 

For information about a child support lawyer, call the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig at (816) 454-7474.