Child Support – Kansas-Divorce

To Ease Welfare Load, Kansas List Exposes Parents Behind On Child Support

by Ronald Nelson
April 12, 2018
Child Support, News

KCUR published a story on April 11, 2018, highlighting a new Kansas Department of Children and Families website that is publishing the names and photographs of Kansas child support obligors who owe more than [...]

Kansas Family Law Code Legislative Amendments Effective July 1, 2014

by Ronald Nelson
June 11, 2014
Child Support, KSLegislature, News, Parenting, Paternity

The 2014 Kansas Legislature made some minor — and some major — changes to the Kansas Revised Family Law Code; all for the best. House Bill 2568 is a continuation of efforts by the Kansas [...]

Kansas House Passes Amendments to Kansas Family Law Code

by Ronald Nelson
February 27, 2014
Child Custody, Child Support, KSLegislature, News, Parenting, Paternity

The House today passed amendments to the Kansas Family Law Code as proposed by the Kansas Judicial Council (after removing Section 3 of the bill), 123-0. The bill summary and history follows: HB2568: Domestic [...]

Kansas House Judiciary Holds Hearing on Needed Changes to Kansas Family Law

by Ronald Nelson
February 15, 2014
Child Support, KSLegislature, Parenting, Paternity

HB2568: Domestic Relations; Kansas Revised Family Law Code; child support guidelines. This bill is a continuation of efforts by the Kansas Judicial Council to update and unify Kansas domestic relations statutes into the Kansas [...]

Same-sex Parenting under the Uniform Parentage Act (1973)

by Ronald Nelson
March 8, 2013
Child Custody, Child Support, Paternity, Same-sex Relationships

The Kansas Court of Appeals today decided another same-sex parenting case. This time, the same-sex couple did not have a written co-parenting agreement similar to what existed in the recent Kansas Supreme Court case, [...]

Can my child’s other parent make me to pay child support through college?

by Ronald Nelson
February 13, 2013
Child Support

The duration of child support is determined by the state that originally entered the order (in a divorce or parentage case). In Kansas, child support duration is governed by KSA 23-3001(b): “(b) Regardless of the [...]

Will the court approve the child support agreement I made with my ex?

by Ronald Nelson
December 12, 2012
Child Support

Just because you have an “agreement” about child support with your child’s other parent doesn’t mean the court will, or must, accept it. Child support in Kansas (and throughout the United States) is governed [...]

Court Reverses 50-year old Child Support Precedent

by Ronald Nelson
October 26, 2012
Child Support, KsCourts, KSLegislature, News

The Kansas Supreme Court this morning decided a case that drastically changes the way in which Kansas law is applied in a divorce proceeding. “More than 50 years ago, in Edwards v. Edwards, 182 Kan. [...]

2012 Kansas Legislature Will Consider UIFSA 2008

by Ronald Nelson
November 5, 2011
Child Support, International, KSLegislature, News

2012 Kansas Legislature Will Consider UIFSA 2008 The Kansas Judicial Council has recommended that the Kansas Legislature enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act 2008 Amendments. Following up on the reorganization of Kansas Domestic [...]

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