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How is child support determined? |
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Child support is
determined by statewide child support guidelines. The Kansas Child Support
Guidelines are available at the Kansas Supreme Court website. Child
support is usually paid by the “non-primary-residential” parent to the “primary-residential”
parent; however, even if the child is with both parents an equal amount of
time, the court may order that one parent pay the other some amount of child
support. Child support is a duty of both parents to support their child
according to their respective incomes and abilities. Child support cannot be “bargained
away” by agreement with the other parent. Child support is the child’s right
to be supported by the child’s parents. The courts will protect his right
even if the parents believe there should not be any child support paid
between them. Child
support is determined by a number of factors including: the age of the
child, the number of children to be supported, the parents’ incomes, health
insurance premiums, child care costs and other factors. The child support determined
under the guidelines is presumed correct and will be
the child support order unless the court independently finds that other
provisions are more in the child’s best interests. Child support is usually paid until the child reaches the age of majority
(which is 18 years of age or June 30 if the child's 18th birthday occurs
while the child is attending high school). The obligation to pay child
support may be extended beyond the child’s majority by agreement between the
parties, but cannot be imposed by the Court past majority. If child support
was originally ordered by another state, the time that child support is
required is determined by that state’s laws rather than the law of any state
that may later modify any child support order. |
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NELSON & BOOTH is a law firm engaged exclusively in a family
law practice emphasizing complex domestic relations actions, including
divorce and determination of parentage, property division, child custody,
parenting time, spousal and child support and representation of parents in
cases of international child abduction. The attorneys at NELSON & BOOTH are licensed to practice
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