Recent Posts in Child Support Category
Posted on Jun 30, 2022 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Establishing the paternity of a child is far more important than some people realize. If you don’t prove who a child’s biological father is, it can have terrible consequences in the ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2022 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Often, one spouse knows before the other that the marriage is over. Maybe it’s only over for them and their spouse thinks the marriage is fine. Or maybe they both know their marriage has issues, ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2022 By Arnold Law Group, APC
When people choose to commit to each other, that can come in several forms. Some people go the traditional route and choose to get married. Others prefer to date one another indefinitely and never get ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2021 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Why You Must Pay Child Support Regardless of Visitation Rights or Restrictions In matters of child custody, the court can decide on the custodial agreement, visitation, and child support when parents ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2021 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Men often assume that when their child is born, they are automatically given parental rights. This is not so, and the process is more complicated. Even in the simplest of situations – a husband ...
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Posted on Feb 28, 2021 By Arnold Law Group, APC
For many parents, a child custody case will be the most important legal dispute they'll ever engage in. With the time you spend with your child on the line and the potential for your case to ...
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Posted on Jul 6, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
“One-in-four parents living with a child in the United States today are unmarried. Driven by declines in marriage overall, as well as increases in births outside of marriage, this marks a ...
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Posted on Jun 22, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Most people who have been married or married, divorced, and remarried can attest that “marriage takes work.” With over 40 percent of all first marriages ending in divorce, it’s not ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Before the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) of 2020, millions of Americans were already living paycheck to paycheck. In the middle of March, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in an ...
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Posted on May 4, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
By now, you’ve heard all the “buzz” surrounding the stimulus checks, which are meant to inject cash into an economy hit hard by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For qualifying ...
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Posted on Apr 24, 2020 By Joseph Arnold
Does Remarriage Affect Your Divorce? When you or your ex-spouse remarry, some of the agreements from your divorce may change. After a divorce, especially one involving children, one party may have a ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
When Americans first heard of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, they probably had no idea how their lives were about to change dramatically. By mid-March of 2020, things started to shift. ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2020 By Arnold Law Group, APC
A huge percentage of Americans are living check to check so it can be nerve-wracking when you lose your job, especially if you have children to support. When noncustodial parents lose their jobs, ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2019 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Many newly-divorced parents don’t realize it but child support is open-ended. Meaning, it is subject to being changed in the future; it’s not necessarily a fixed amount. In life and ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2019 By Arnold Law Group, APC
Legal separation is not available in all states, but it IS an option in California. What is a legal separation and how is it different than divorce? A legal separation is a lot like a divorce. It ...
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Posted on May 22, 2019 By Arnold Law Group, APC
If you have fallen behind on child support, there is a strong possibility that other areas of your finances are hurting as well. Perhaps you lost your job, or your hours were cut. Perhaps you had to ...
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