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How Does One Stop The Obligation To Pay Child Support In Alabama
Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Alabama Divorce Lawyer, Jim Jeffries.
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A Parent who has been previously ordered to pay child support is obligated to pay until the child’s 19th birthday. Unless there is a specific date in the divorce decree or subsequent order which states that the support can be terminated on that day, a person is technically obligated to pay support until the Judge issues an order terminating the support requirement. A person can be ordered to pay support past the child’s nineteenth birthday if the child is going to college and the parent has the financial ability to pay or if the child is a “special needs” child and is mentally or physically unable to provide for themselves once they reach the age of 19. Any action intended to get one parent to pay college support MUST be filed prior to the day of that particular child’s nineteenth birthday. If not filed by then, the court forever loses jurisdiction to order college support.
If there are multiple children who are receiving support pursuant to your current order and one has turned 19, that is a sufficient basis to modify the payor’s support. The new order will be recalculated based on the parties’ gross monthly incomes and other A.R.J.A. 32 factors existing at that time but will not include support for the child that recently turned 19.
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How to Move on After Divorce
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Alabama Divorce Lawyer, Michael Sherman.
Tips to Rebuild Your Life and Your Goals after Divorce contains some good advice. The information there is not really specific to Alabama divorce law. In fact, the article doesn’t really deal with divorce laws at all. Rather, the focus of the article is on how to move on with your life after divorce. And, on that note it is helpful.
Here is a summary of the tips there:
- Work through your grief
- Recognize your survival mechanisms
- Assess your talents
- Start living consciously
- Write your own story
- Develop a project for the future
- Plan for obstacles
- Deal with the fears
- Take incredible care of yourself along the way
Check out the link above to read the details for each step. If you are recently divorced or going through a divorce now, it is worth a read. The last tip is really what the entire article is about: taking care of yourself. When I am helping a client go through an Alabama divorce, I try to urge them to take care of themselves mentally, phyiscally, emotionally and spiritually. Often divorce attorneys are so focused on protecting our clients in their legal case, that it is easy to overlook these equally important issues of their health. So, not only is this a good article for someone going through divorce, it was a good reminder to me, as a divorce lawyer, to not lose site of this important aspect of my client’s life.