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The Single Dad’s Guide to Surviving the Coronavirus Shutdown

Single dads who owe child support could lose their stimulus checks, but there is other help available. Check out these details on extended unemployment programs and what lenders are doing to help.

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Posted in Fathers and Family Law Child Support / Spousal Support Fathers and Society The Law

Dads Could Pay Support for Unborn Children Thanks to New Bill

Republican lawmakers across the country want to use prenatal DNA testing to assign child support before a child is born. Here’s how to fight the Unborn Child Support Act.

Our 7-Point List of Co-Parenting Boundaries: Points 5,6 & 7
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Posted in Child Support / Spousal Support Custody & Parenting Time

Father’s Day Weekend Statistics on Child Support and Parenting Time 2019

For Father’s Day 2019 we are covering both a state by state comparison of average child support awards, and a state by state comparison of parenting time awarded to single fathers. While in most states the amount of child support awarded to the custodial parent is in part driven by how much parenting time each parent has, that doesn’t necessarily mean that if you have more parenting time than someone in another state that you will pay less child support, even if it’s an adjacent neighboring state.

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Pro-Dad Attitudes Key to Improving Child Support Recovery Rates

Simply changing the wording at various stages of the child support process demonstrated a 54 percent improvement in effectiveness. When dads are invited, encouraged and appreciated it is more beneficial to families, to children and to state budgets than the current trend toward criminalization.

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Should Child Support Cover School Supplies?

Some divorced parents wind up fighting over the cost of school supplies. How you handle this legally has more to do with your divorce decree than anything.

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Posted in The Law Child Support / Spousal Support Custody & Parenting Time Fathers and Family Law

Equal Custody Rights for Fathers Blocked by Special Interests

The National Parents Organization has polled the American public in several states and found that the vast majority, over 70%, support joint physical custody after divorce whenever possible. Increasingly, old fashioned ideas have fallen out of favor — that children belong with their nurturing, caregiver mothers, while the role of…

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How the New Tax Laws from 2017 – 2018 Affect Single Fathers and What You Should Do About It

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the new tax law passed in 2017, and effective in 2018, has serious impacts for single fathers. The most glaring of these impacts – which also seems to be the least covered – is that it it completely does away with the deduction for spousal support (also known as ‘alimony’ or ‘maintenance’). Here’s what you should do to deal with this.

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The New Tax Law Does Away with Alimony, Spousal Support Deduction

With very little fanfare, the new tax law that was passed at the very end of December, 2017, and which is effective in 2018, did away with the requirement that spousal support (previously known as alimony) receivers declare spousal support as income and, on the other side of the balance sheet, did away with the deduction for spousal support payers.

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Child Seeking Money from Parents Can Be a Legal Party to Parents’ Divorce, says Court

A Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled that an adult child seeking money from their parents can become a party in their parents’ divorce. In the case of Weber v. Weber, Judges Olson, Stabile, and Strassburger held that Michael Weber, the adult child of Beth Anne Weber and Mark Weber, had legal standing to join his parents’ divorce action as a plaintiff in order to sue his father to enforce a provision saying that his parents would pay for college.

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Passports and the Truth about How the Federal Real ID Requirements for Travel Will Impact Child Support Payers

You may have heard that starting this year you will need a passport to travel by air, even within the United States. While this is not accurate, what is true is that starting in 2018 (not 2016) you will need a compliant driver’s license or other ID card in order to travel by air, and one such acceptable form of identification is a passport. However, it is not true that if you don’t have a passport and are from Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire or New York (these are the states mentioned most often in the misinformation), you will be unable to board a domestic flight. Here are the facts.