Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland
how do i go about obtaining child support from my father?
ok i am 19 years old in college. i have never received child support from my father. i was abandon by him when i was born. how do i go about getting child support to help me make it thru college? also will i be able to get child support that i should have been getting since i was born? also if i can recieve this child support how much longer am i entitled to it and how do i go about getting it?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: how do i go about obtaining child support from my father?
Your father has no legal obligation to support you past your eighteenth birthday, but if there was a child support order issued while you were a minor the money he should have paid, but didn't, can still be due to you or to your mother. If your mother never filed a claim for child support while you were a minor, I can see no way you can compel your father to pay. A parent can not be required to make retroactive child support payments for periods prior to the date when a claim for support was filed. If there was an order, and you know how to locate your father, you should contact the child support enforcement office in your county and they will help you.
Re: how do i go about obtaining child support from my father?
Once 18 no longer a child. If an order of child support issued then it is effective for 12 years. I hope this answers your question.
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