Wednesday, November 28, 2012

How to Divorce -- Child Support

Child support is always a critical issue.  In Utah, child support is required by law and cannot be waived by the parents.  The policy behind this is that a parent should be financially responsible for their child and that the support is for the child so a parent cannot waive the child support. Child support issues can also affect a custody battle because Utah uses one formula for calculating child support when one party has primary custody and another formula (based on the number of overnights the child spends with each parent) when the parties share joint custody of a child. 

The Utah Courts provide a child support calculator that allows a party to plug in the gross monthly incomes of the parties and the number of children to get an amount for when a party has sole custody. To calculate joint custody, the parties simply add the number of overnights that the child will spend at each parent's residence.The child support worksheet must be filed with the Court.  The calculator can be found at http://www.utcourts.gov/childsupport/calculator.

 

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    1. Good point. Sometimes a parent will want to negotiate away child support because they do not want to deal with the other parent after the divorce or they do not believe that a parent will actually pay child support. The child needs to be protected in these types of situations.

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