In his Law and the Family column, Joel Brandes examines the history and current state of what he calls the "child support modification roller coaster" for matrimonial lawyers trying to understand when ...

Parties may jointly agree to modify child support by submitting a stipulation, signed by both parties and/or their respective counsel, to the Court. To qualify for modification of your child support ...

The Appellate Division’s July 6, 2021 decision follows nearly a decade of post-judgment divorce litigation between the parties. Defendant appealed three (3) Family Part orders which (1) denied his ...

Where a father did not exercise equal parenting time, the trial court was allowed to modify a child support order that required the mother to make a lump-sum pre-payment in lieu of monthly child ...

Attorney Cheryl Arakaki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss what is child support and how it is determined, whether the amount of child support can be modified, how payment is made, ...

A downward modification of a support order will be granted where a party presents credible evidence that he lost his job through no fault of his own and made a good faith effort to obtain new ...

Divorce can be complicated and emotional, especially when children are involved. Every family is different when it comes to determining where the children should live and how their time is best split ...

When the U.S. child support collection system was set up in 1975 under President Gerald Ford — a child of divorce whose father failed to pay court-ordered child support — the country, and the typical ...