How Do You Find a Good Child Support Attorney

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How Do You Find a Good Child Support Attorney
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ne of the toughest things to keep up with is your
child support payments. Most Child
Support cases accrue interest at an astronomical
rate similar to the IRS. If the custodial
parent has ever applied for federal
benefits such as TANF (Temporary Aid to
Needy
Families) formerly known as AFDC, (Aid to
Families with Needy Children) then the amount of
child support you pay is accrue faster than you
can ever pay it back. So is there a way you can
ever win this Child Support battle and get off
that crazy Merry go round?
The first step you must do is find a good Child
Support Attorney in which to act as your go-
between and be a third party in which can take
the helm and aid you in plotting a course of
action on how to get your child support payments
under control. Now that you have acquired a
Child Support attorney, he or she is
going to assist you in completing and filing
any required paperwork on time and recognizing
any instances in which you may need to take
immediate action. If you are the custodial
parent and you are seeking child support
for the first time, there are several steps
that must be done in order to get a child support
court order filed. First, you must prove
paternity of the child. If you were not married
to the biological father of your child at the
time of birth and he did not accompany you in the
labor and delivery room then he is not listed as
the father of your child on the birth
certificate. So proving paternity is going to be
a little trickier than if he was listed as the
father. But, it is still doable. You are going
to need to get a DNA Paternity test done, which
is done by taking a sample of his DNA and a
sample of your childs
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DNA to the lab to be analyzed for similarities.
Once Paternity has been declared, it is time to
take these results to your attorney so get the
paperwork filed for a child support hearing. If
you are the non-custodial parent you can also get
a child support attorney to assist you with
paternity and to fight for you as far as proving
to the court what is a fair, affordable amount of
child support for you to pay. If your child is
in the Foster Care system, for whatever reason,
both parents are considered non- custodial
parents, and therefore, are required to pay
the state child support payments. Child
support also considers health insurance as part
of child support requirements which means you
must provide some sort of health insurance
coverage for your child as well as long as they
are under the care of the state. Each state has
guidelines established for how much monetary
payments the non-custodial parents must pay to
either the local child support agency or the
custodial parent for child support. If you are
unable to pay, due to unemployment, disability,
or both and can only pay a limited amount monthly
due to a fixed income budget, this is what must
be discussed with your child support attorney to
get the original court order modified and
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