Do I Have To Pay Child Support If I Have Joint Custody ?
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Do I Have To Pay Child Support If I Have Joint Custody ?

The courts in the United States use a specific formula to decide if one should pay child support or not. There are many factors like the number of children, income and also expenses that are taken into consideration. Who is going to be the custodial parent is determined first, and only then child support is decided.

The non custodial parent will typically pay child support. In case of joint custody, the child support calculation is rather indirect. Joint custody is as good as marriage, and it is just like running your children’s lives together. The divorce becomes nearly null in terms of taking care of the children in this case.

Actually joint custody is viewed differently in each State. In some States, a child may spend only three months with one parent, and the rest of the time they are with the other parent. In some states, the time spent with each parent is equal. However, in most joint custody cases, the children end up spending time with their parents as arranged. Child support in joint custody cases is decided upon the exact amount of time the child spends with the parent. This could be for 40 percent of the time or 50 percent of the time.

However, above all, the court takes into consideration the income of each parent. Depending on that how much child support you will pay if you pay at all, and how much less or more is calculated. There is no custodial parent in joint custody. So, child support is not fully dependant on one spouse. It also depends on which parent is going to claim the child as dependants.

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Fathers-Rights-In-Child-Support      Over the recent few decades, whenever parents get divorced, the custody of children is automatically given to the mother. In very few cases it is considered as an exception when custody is given to the father. So invariably the father is the person who ends up paying child support. However, modern science reveals that there is no rule that the child has to be placed only in the custody of mother or father. More..

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