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 ...

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 ...

For those with support obligations, the general economic strain of this crisis comes with the added anxiety of not knowing how they will pay child support and/or alimony while they remain unemployed.

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 ...