How to Understand Interstate Child Support Laws
A lot of questions surrounding child-support regulations used to come up when the parents lived in different states. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act has helped clear up a lot of the confusion.
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Understand that most states have passed the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, a law that lets courts in different states cooperate with each other and that clarifies what happens when the parties in a support case live in different states.
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Know that before this law was passed there was a lot of confusion about child support. Sometimes courts in two different states would order child support payments and the parent would be responsible for paying under both orders.
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Realize that under this law, the state where one parent and the child live has the power to issue a support order.
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Recognize that, under this act, states cannot interfere with support orders made in the state where one parent and the child live.
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Be clear on the fact that one state can modify another state's order only if neither of the parents nor the child live in the issuing state, or if both parents now live in the state where the modification is sought.
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Ask the court for a determination of which order applies if you have more than one.
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Consider that no matter where a support order is collected or enforced, it will be governed by the laws of the state in which it was issued.
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Tips & Warnings
Enforce your support order in any state by simply registering the order in the state where you wish to enforce it and requesting enforcement. Income withholding orders can be sent to employees in any state without registering the order in that state. Amounts collected in other states will be subtracted from the amount due on the order in the issuing state.
Contact the family court in the state where you wish to register a support order from another state.
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I've been trying to register an interstate order from Erie county Ny with Greenville South Carolina for years now and it never goes through. I've worked with erie county attorneys office and nothing gets done. They tell me south carolina just doesn't respond and won't accept the case. I thought it was supposed to be a law that they have to get involved. More needs to be done.
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steelers6
Jul 23, 2009
i would like to know do i stop paying child support when the child is 18, or when finished with high school? The child or should i say adult lives in pa. And i live in fl.??? -
pissedoffmomma
Jul 10, 2009
how can a person violate a custody order twice and still recieve custody and child support as a result.
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eliteeight
May 22, 2009
you cant generalize and say he's a deadbeat...he's contributing. The amount might not be to your liking but the fact of the matter is fulfilling his obligation. In addition your statement..."maybe if he had beome better educated before he started popping out children" is lame..You loved him once and obviously slept with him so that makes you as uneducated as he is...please don't generalize. You don't know someone circumstances. On the flip side, would you want to pay for your children if they were with him...Believe me when I tell you, you wouldn't want to be in that situation....Anyhow, you never mentioned on having a job...so do you deserve to go to federal prison..where is you obligation in this. After all...it took both of you "pop out children
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kiley4
Mar 09, 2009
Yet for some reason the children are always hungry, need more uniforms for school, are literally failing academically. Tell me who's a deadbeat?
