Recently enacted changes to the state’s child support formula and guidelines should have a dramatic effect on the amount paid by high-income earners. The amendment – enacted in the previous ...

The average child support payment for a noncustodial parent is $430 a month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That comes to $5,160 a year, or more than $92,880 over 18 years, when a child becomes ...

More than $100 million in child support goes uncollected in Ohio each year. Ohio’s child support system, plagued with an outdated formula used to calculate payments, $100 million a year in unpaid ...

State officials for the first time in decades are pushing a major overhaul of a system that touches one of the most volatile of all family issues: how child support is calculated. The move aims at ...

Regardless of circumstances, a custodial parent is entitled to financial support from the child’s other parent. Credit...Lucy Jones Supported by By Diane Mehta This guide was originally published on ...

Mississippi is one of only four states where one parent's income is used to determine child support, and that keeps child support payments here higher than if both parents' incomes were used, ...

ANNAPOLIS – Legislation will soon be introduced to remove a controversial provision in Maryland family law that sharply reduces noncustodial parents’ child-support obligations once they have hosted ...