Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: Make payments outside support order

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NOW, IN RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY --

If neither parent nor the children live in CA, the state no longer has jurisdiction to modify the order. Most likely the modification must take place in the children's home state, the state where they have resided for the last six months. Trying to modify the order (by agreement) without court participation is risky for both the payor and the payee. I would not recommend it as it can come back to "bite" you years and years later.

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Re: Make payments outside support order

To whom are you to make the payments to per the ORDER?