Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

child support

Help I have no money left for an attorney no job I'm on unemployment.My son turned 18 in may of 08 child support ended. He was not going to schoolAnd now there mother filed for support again.I was never married to this woman{Best decision I ever made}. She abandoned them as toddlers never complied with a single order from the court never paid a nickle of child support and this judge still gave her custody and now she is lying to get more money from me that I don't have.And now my kids have abandoned me like she abandoned them.I need some proffesional help I'm at the end of my rope.And i'm ready to just give up.This stress is taking its toll on me. My thoughts are filled with rage and murder.Can somebody please help.


Asked on 1/31/09, 10:11 am

3 Answers from Attorneys

Joseph Murray Joseph M. Murray, Esq.

Re: child support

File an answer and counterclaim to her support action explaining your son is emancipated if he is not enrolled as a full time student and requesting the court order your support obligation for him terminated. Good Luck!

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Answered on 1/31/09, 10:48 am

Re: child support

Mr Murphy's advice is correct. You can also call Boston legal Services for assistance as well.

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Answered on 1/31/09, 1:10 pm
Gregory Lee Gregory P. Lee, Attorney at Law

Re: child support

If your thoughts are filled as you say they are, I suggest that you seek counseling as a priority. If you act on such thoughts in any illegal way, you are going to have a difficulty, because the post is on the system, and is evidence.

Beyond that, the state of child support determination determines the law that will be applied toward child support. Under the revised Massachusetts Guidelines, judges are not supposed to automatically order support just because a child resides at home after she or he is 18 and done with high school. I have only had this issue come up once so far, and thus cannot say with certainty how the judges will apply the new Guidelines. However, a child over 18 and not attending school full-time is unlikely to get full support.

Massachusetts seems a likelihood for determining child support, if the children were born here, the previous orders were set here, and the parent to be obligated to pay (you) are still here.

If, as you suggest elsewhere, this is a "scam," you need to get your facts together to prove it. AFTER you start counseling. You have a lot to deal with, and putting thoughts like that on a public forum on the Internet suggests that you aren't dealing well with these things.

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Answered on 1/31/09, 6:45 pm


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