Blog: Child Support

10/8/12

Child support issues for Pennsylvania parents to consider

Few people enter into a marriage believing that it won’t be the “happily-ever-after” most envision. The reality of life, though, is that approximately half of marriages do eventually end in divorce. This can be even more emotionally damaging for children who are caught in the middle. That is one reason that Pennsylvania parents should strive to make amicable Obviously, family courts typically have the last say-so when it comes to officially establishing the required...

8/15/12

August is Child Support Awareness Month

August marks Child Support Awareness Month, which can be a good time for those who have either gone through or may go through divorce to educate themselves on child support issues. Pennsylvania parents who face First is the apparent misconception that only men pay child support, which simply isn’t true. Statistics reveal that approximately 15 percent of those who pay child support are women. Interestingly, child support payments received are not considered to be...

6/19/12

House passes legislation seeking to enforce international child support

Recently, in support of helping states further enforce child support obligations, the House passed legislation seeking to ratify an international child support treaty. Among other states, this may mean a much faster process of collection for Pennsylvania parents awaiting The measure seeks to ratify the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. It is still awaiting Senate action. So far, the treaty has been signed...

4/20/12

Man indicted for failure to pay child support

Even as the national economy begins to rebound, many Pennsylvania residents no doubt continue to suffer from the aftermath of the financial crisis that hit the nation in 2008. Those impacted may well experience tremendous difficulty in meeting their financial obligations, which may include In that vein, readers of this blog may be interested to hear that on April 10, a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania indicted a 49-year-old man for willful failure to...

3/21/12

Pennsylvania unclaimed property seized for unpaid child support

Obtaining back-due child support can be difficult and even sometimes impossible for many Pennsylvania custodial parents. Part of the problem may be that the non-custodial parent is facing financial hardship and is truly unable to meet his or her financial obligations. However, a lot of times it may not even be possible to locate the non-custodial parent, making it all the more difficult to procure Whatever the case may be, there are fortunately several...

2/29/12

Child support ruling affects biological fathers

Recently the Pennsylvania Supreme Court passed a ruling on a child support case concerning complicated matters of paternity. The case in question involves an alleged biological father, the mother of the child and the mother’s estranged husband. Ruling that the best interests of the child should be of the utmost concern and that biological fathers may be held more strictly to pay Several years ago, the mother and the purported biological father of the...