Noncustodial Parent

Question: Can a custodial parent make the noncustodial parent pay child support if the child is adopted by a stepparent? Also, is it legal for the stepparent to adopt without the noncustodial parent signing the adoption papers?

Answer: Once adopted, the non-custodial parent is relieved of support payments. But is not relieved of past due payments owed. Quite often these arrears child support payments are a bargaining chip to get the non-cust parent to relinquish his/her parental rights. The non-cust parent must relinquish parental rights or be relieved of those rights by the court before the child can be adopted.

Question: Does a noncustodial parent still pay child support when the kids are with the noncustodial parent for 3 weeks? Kids live in Illinois with custodial parent but will visit their noncustodial parent for 3 weeks of every summer in Florida.

Answer: First, I hope they go more t\often and for a longer period than that. What happens is if this is a consideration, than it becomes a deductible item on the order with the parents adjusted for the whole year. In states like Missouri, it takes having the child 30 days to stop a payment, which is why attorney fight against fathers having them for over 3 weeks. http://ch10c-visitation-parents_living_o… \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Question: Can I get the tax income money back I allowed the noncustodial parent to file for? I allowed my son's father to claim my son on his taxes this year. I even signed the paper stating I released it for 2009 because he is noncustodial parent. The deal was that he would get it and split it with me. Guess who I haven't heard from since he received the money. There is nothing I had him sign saying he would give me half. Can anything be done to get this money back? Is there anyway I can sue him for my half as he promised?

Answer: You gave him written permission to claim your son as a dependent. Any refund he received because of your decision is legally his to do with as he wants. Although I am not a lawyer, I guess you could take him to small claims court in order to try to get the half he said he'd pay you, but with nothing in writing it doesn't sound like your chances of winning a lawsuit would be very good.

Question: what happens when custodial parent and noncustodial parent decided to live together? what will happen to their case for child support? What will happen to the arrears of noncustodial parent owed to custodial parent? Will the case be closed?

Answer: If they get married, you can cancel the child support and arrears unless the state paid it and you owe them.

Question: In a divorce, is it possible for a custodial parent to receive child support from the noncustodial parent? and simultaneously have to pay the noncustodial parent spousal support? If so, how is all of this calculated?

Answer: It depends on the state. In PA, spousal support is calculated first and is the difference of the parties' net incomes times 30%. That amount is then added to the payee's income and deducted from the payor's income to determine the child support obligation.

Question: The child support enforcement nor I can't find an address on the noncustodial parent. Can he be served @ work? I have three kids by the noncustodial parent but i only receive payments for two. Im trying to add my baby on, and have been trying for almost a year. The only problem is, cannot find his home address, but i know where he works.

Answer: Process may be served on a party in any location where a process server may locate that party. Yes, he can be served at work.

Question: How old do you have to be before you can choose when you want visit ur noncustodial parent? ok i know that is a little confusing but what i want to know is how old you have to be before you can decide when YOU want to see your noncustodial parent (instead of what the custody papers say)

Answer: 18. You can choose who you live with at 12(in Missouri) but if your mom has custody you can't go visit your dad whenever you want. Until you turn 18, ofcourse. Then its all on you.

Question: If a noncustodial parent must pay half of the daycare bill, should he not be entitled to know where the child? is going, the hours she is there. The custodial parent will not provide any of this information., The only thing she gives me is a sheet of paper that says Rec'd from____________ for week of Sept. 27-Oct. 1 $115.00. Does the noncustodial parent have a right to know what hours the child goes and does not even know when the mother works.

Answer: I guess there are a number of other questions that need to be answered first. Do you have shared custody or visitation only? Is there an Order of Protection? Other than being vengeful is there another reason she won't give up the info? The paper she's giving you might not even work for tax purposes. If none of the previously mentioned things are true....I'd have her a^^ back in court.

Question: The noncustodial parent owes $5,000 in child support, what will happen to them? It's court ordered, and they've done everything but throw the noncustodial parent in jail. I don't want that to happen because that will not do anybody any good. But could it happen? Could the Child Support Enforcement Agency in charge of the case get the noncustodial parent jailed? Or would the custodial parent need to file some sort of complaint with the courts before such measures are taken? The case is in the state of Maryland. Thank you very much for your help!

Answer: Well if the non-custodial parent is female, she may not go to jail as courts are reluctant to jail women over family matters. But if the non-custodial parent is a man, then if he is declared in contempt of court, he could lose his driver's license and/or be jailed. The Child Support Enforcement Agency should deal with this but if they do not, you can either choose to forgo the support or wait until they do pay up, or you take them to court. Good luck.

Question: If a custodial parent is in jail? The noncustodial parent is denied visitation by a non relative is it kidnap? Basically, the cutodial parent is in jail for violating a probation and violating a ro against the noncustodial parent, now the custodial parent who is in jail is calling all the shots and refused the nonc. vistation aand worse the child is with anonrelative which they won't hand the chidl over. Isn't it kidnappin if this other person has no legal rights or custody to the child/

Answer: The non-custodial parent can go to the county attorney's office and fill out a form requesting emergency temporary custody. He will be allowed to appear before a judge within a day or so as will the person who is currently caring for the child. Hopefully, the custodial parent will also be brought to court. The judge will decide at the hearing who will get temporary custody and what the visitation arrangements will be.

Question: Can a noncustodial parent be court ordered to visit his children? My ex husband has not visited or called his children in nearly 4 years. We ran into him at a store recently and turned away when my children tried to approach him. My son is having a very hard time with this, understandably. He misses his father and while I'm not sure how healthy it is to force his father to visit him, the abandonment isn't healthy either. Is there some sort of program that forces the non-custodial parent to spend time with their children and possibly receive some sort of family counseling?

Answer: Don't force the sperm donor on your loving children. they need good role models and as long as you have some grandparents, uncles, male cousins, friends as well as a man in your lives that is better than a bio daddy who is worthless. Just make sure he is forced to pay his duties to those beautiful children. He will grow old and sad.

Question: What is the standard visitation for the noncustodial parent for a child that's 9 months old, in Texas? Is is not normal for the custodial parent to ask for supervised visits with the other parent at this young age? Til the age of 3?

Answer: ►▬◄ Would you have hired someone to supervise if you two were together and you were at work or something?

Question: If a noncustodial parent moves 60 miles away, who is responsible for transporting a minor for visitations? In Indiana is it true that the distance should be split? Either meet in the middle or one parent drive the whole distance one way?

Answer: Generally whoever the child is going to visit has the responsibility. Most parents work out a fair exchange however. If it goes to court, who moved and the availability of transportation will play a part. Work it out if you can.

Question: I a custodial parent of a child joins the army is it likely the noncustodial parent will receive custody? Especialy if the parent is over seas.

Answer: very likely

Question: If the noncustodial parent is behind in child support n texas does the child have to go with them for a month? I am the custodial parent of a 4 yr. old, she has to go to her dad's for a month in the summer. He is behind on child support almost 2 months. Should she have to go to with him for a month with him being behind on child support?

Answer: So what you're saying is whether it's okay to punish your child because he's behind, which in this economy where 80% of layoffs involve men, is not that uncommon. Especially since our government refuses to teach fathers how to get adjustments like they do mothers. If you were denying him access, like 60% of mothers do, do you believe he should be allowed to stop the payments? The problems of nion-payment are short term, but fatherless children is life changing. Fortune Magazine - Fatherless Families & Crime “Ominously, the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless.” http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/f… Stanford University - Divorce, Nontraditional Families, and Its Consequences For Children "We know that children of divorced parents have more emotional and behavioral problems and do less well in school than children who live with both their Parent." http://www.stanford.edu/~rmahony/Divorce… THE FATHERLESS GENERATION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZmMffsIl…

Question: If a noncustodial parent signs for a minor child to marry, is it a legal marriage? Would a marriage be legal if a parent (with no legal custody) signed permission for the minor child to be married? I ask because years ago, my SIL kidnapped her child and went to KY. Months later, the child wanted to get married and the mom was going to sign. The father found the child before the marriage was performed. I have just been wondering what would have happened if the marriage ceremony was performed.

Answer: No. That would be the same as asking a neighbor to sign for you. The custodial parent is the ONLY parent with rights to sign for an underage marriage in this case. Even though the other person is a parent of the child, if they lack the custodial right to make legal decisions regarding the rights and privileges of the child in question, they cannot sign ANYTHING legally binding for the child.

Question: How does a noncustodial parent get custody of the 16 year old child? How do you go about doing this after the child tells you they want to live with you? Need advice.

Answer: Speaking from experience with this EXACT situation...TOUGH is the only way to explain it...there are SOOOO many factors that play a MAJOR role in this process. In my situation, the child was 13 at the time he told us he wanted to live with us due to substance abuse, mental anguish, etc... after a court appointed child custody evaluator recommended that the child be with us...the judge decided that the child should stay with mom. He was almost 15 at the time of the ruling. He is now 16...been suspended from school twice, has failing grades and runs ragged doing whatever he wants whenever he wants with very little guidance. Some fantastic decision that judge made huh....his mom promised him if he would tell the judge that he wanted to live with her she would lighten up on the rules....the things a parent who isn't doing a good job to begin with will do just to WIN...she never had his interests at heart or he would not be in the situation he is currently in...nearly failing out of school and being suspended. BE SURE that the child is SURE he/she wants the change before you waste your sanity and thousands of dollars going to court and dealing with the stress of it all. The only other option is to ask the custodial parent to relinquish custody...but if that parent is like my childs mom....may not wanna give up the child support. Good Luck it is a very tough thing to go through.

Question: How does the child support work if the child and noncustodial parent don't live in the same state? I've been considering moving to another state and was wondering if I leave the state with the child then I wouldn't receive his child support. Is this the case? It's not as if my child and his father have a close relationship so it really won't be hurting the child and he knows the other side of the family. I was brought up to never keep my child from his father, but things didn't work out for whatever reason so I think it would be best to move back home where I can have my family around. We would be able to live without the funds he gets now because my family sticks together, but I would hate to relieve my child's father of his duties as a parent. What advice does anyone have for me? Does it depend on the state as well?

Answer: no child support is a state wide thing i live in Tennessee with my two children and my ex husband lives in California they just send the checks to me and if you want to move then go for it. if he isn't even in his life constantly then just discuss it will your ex and if he want to see him then there holidays just make sure you go to the family court house and get full custody in writing so when you move he cant say you fled with his child good luck

Question: How far can a custodial parent move from her current home without noncustodial parent's consent? I'm concerned my wife may move far away, which makes it hard for me to visit my baby. How far can she move without my approval? We're both living in California.

Answer: Sadly she can move anywhere. It can be made very difficult for you to see the child. Here's a book for you to read - it speaks of alot of the things women do during child support/divorce/dating etc. I read it. It's very informative. I found it on here. http://www.protectionformen.com/

Question: If a noncustodial parent legally terminates parental rights do they have to pay child support in Maryland? The custodial parent( mother) has re-married and terminated biological/parental rights ...would the father still owe child support ?

Answer: yup. Losing rights does not end obligations without a court order