Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are covered by child support?” When parents divorce, they are generally both responsible for providing care for their children. Both parents have rights and responsibilities for their children until they become adults. There are a number…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are covered by child support?” In life, there are times when we as adults need to figure out something new. For instance, spouses who decide to get a divorce may find themselves confused and lost as…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are covered by child support?” When a court orders a parent to make child support payments, that parent must follow the court order. The payor could face penalties, including fines and jail time, for failure or…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are covered by child support?” In most cases, a child support obligation accounts for a large percentage of the supporting parent’s income. However, when circumstances change over time, the supporting parent may be able to petition…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “How is the amount of child support decided in North Carolina?” When a couple divorces, or otherwise separates, it is not uncommon for the parent without full custody of the child be required to pay child support to the…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “Who pays for the children’s health insurance and co-pays?” Adjusting to life with children after divorce can be difficult. Suddenly, after having spent the past years or months with a spouse sharing the responsibilities of parenthood, you are suddenly…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are covered by child support?” When you make the decision to divorce, you might understandably believe that what once was a lifetime connection to your former spouse gets severed. Though it’s true the nature of your…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What are my custody rights if the other parent moves?” At long last, Maria Mena has won in her quest for full custody of the child she had with New York and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmed Rahami when…
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold answers the question: “What children’s expenses are not covered by child support?” When he divorced his ex-wife Nicoletta Zuin in 2002, Nicola Toso agreed to pay child support for their daughter, who was then six (6) years old. He paid 300 euros,…
Matthew R. Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “How is the amount of child support decided in North Carolina?” We generally assume that the responsibility for supporting children financially falls squarely on the biological parents, either directly or through child support payments. Stepparents are seen as…