Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

Maintaining house payments after divorce

After a divorce can a non custodial parent be made to make the house payments for a minor child living in that house

until that child reaches 18 years of age?

The mother works.


Asked on 5/13/02, 4:00 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Dorene Philpot Philpot Law Office

Re: Maintaining house payments after divorce

Child support would be sufficient to supply that child's needs, such as housing.

You would not be paying child support and also a house payment.

Now, the court might order that in a case where you were required to support your spouse because she became disabled during the marriage or something extreme like that.

That kind of order would be highly unlikely, however.

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Answered on 5/13/02, 4:28 pm


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