If you’ve been experiencing financial difficulties – perhaps to the extent that you’re considering bankruptcy – you may have fallen behind on your child support payments. Maybe you’ve only been paying as much as you can afford. Your co-parent may have decided that...
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Is it time to modify child support?
You and your ex-spouse have always had a decent relationship since the end of your marriage. You’ve paid support for years. You’ve only ever missed one payment, and that was because you ended up being sick and hospitalized. Since then, you’ve done everything right,...
How New Hampshire sets child support and how long you’ll pay it
Although many divorcing parents consider child support payments a burden, they comprise a critical benefit that protects the children of divorced or unmarried parents by ensuring they receive practical support from both of their parents. Child support helps close the...
How does New Hampshire determine child support amounts?
A divorce ends your legal connection and obligation to your spouse. However, it does not end the obligation to your children, unless you have been providing financial support for stepchildren during the marriage.Your biological children, along with stepchildren or...
How does New Hampshire calculate child support amounts?
Child support is one of the most misunderstood and wrongfully maligned aspects of divorce in modern America. Many people seem to think of child support as a way for one spouse to control or abuse another financially. In reality, the parent who retains primary custody...
Do you have to pay child support if you or your spouse remarry?
It is very common after divorce for either one or both partners to eventually remarry. If you currently pay child support and remarry, does anything change if your new spouse has kids? What if your ex-spouse remarries? Do you still have to pay child support? Are child...
3 steps to take if you cannot afford child support
Your child support order exists to provide your kids with the financial assistance they need to live comfortably. Unfortunately, the payments are not always feasible. You may have a hard time paying child support, especially if you are dealing with a job loss or...
Modifying child support in New Hampshire
Whether you find yourself on the giving or receiving end, a time may come when you want to change the amount specified in your child support order. Maybe you now have more child-related expenses than you once did, or perhaps you no longer earn the salary you did when...
How does bankruptcy affect child support in New Hampshire?
Between legal fees, a new place and child support, divorce has already hurt your bank account. Whether you were already in a bad place before, have not recovered from the divorce costs or have experienced a financial disaster, bankruptcy may now be in your future.With...