Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

I have been paying child support for my daughter for years. She is now 18 and will be 19 very shortly. She graduated from high school in the summber of 2015 and has been working and not going to college since. I have had child support taken out of my disability social security for years. For years my social security payment for my daughter did not, and still does not, count toward a child support payment. Can I stop paying child support when she is 19? And would I be entitled to any of the money that wasn't counted as child a child support payment which she was receiving but didn't count as child support? I know someone else on social security disability and his payment to his children from social security counts toward his child support. My ex wife had/has been receiving that social security check on my daughter and my social security payment also had child support coming out.


Asked on 5/12/16, 4:15 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jay Rigdon Rockhill Pinnick LLP

19 is now the age of emancipation in Indiana, so unless she has been found by a court to be disabled, child support will be terminated at that time. You are not going to be able to get any money back if that is what you are also asking.

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Answered on 5/16/16, 11:47 am


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