Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: Child Support, California

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NOW, IN RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY --

The facts that you have provided are not clear

enough and/or complete enough to provide a

definitive answer to you inquiry; however, I would

say 1995 may be beyond the retroactivity allowed the DA for collecting arrears, depending when they started their action. You also may now be entitled to receive (future) child support from the mother. Contact an experienced Family Law attorney who practices in the county where the action is taking place.

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Re: Child Support, California

If you are looking for a credit for caring for your son for the last two years against what you owe the State for Aid paid on behalf of your son, there is no such legal set off. You may want to contact the department of child support services that is collecting the support from you and ask them to establish a child support order for support owed by the Mother to you which you can then use to pay the State of California. The State must have filed an action to obtain an order for child support from you and can only make the order retroactive for three years, so there must be an order entered in a court. If the order that the State is trying to enforce was taken by default they may be willing to look at the order to determine if it was set at the correct amount. If it was taken by default, first, get a copy of the order, second, talk to an attorney the practices in the county that the order was taken about your options. Good Luck, Pat McCrary