Legal Question in Family Law in Missouri

child support

My friend was unemployed for 5 months and therefore only made partial child support payments for those 5 months. Now that he is employed, his ex-wife's lawyer says he must make up what he did not pay during those 5 months. Is this true? I thought child support was based on income, and obviously his income while unemployed was less.


Asked on 8/20/08, 11:10 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael R. Nack Michael R. Nack, Attorney at Law

Re: child support

Your friend owes the entire amount of court ordered child support even for those months in which he was unemployed unless he went back to court and had the existing court ordered child support reduced during that time. The ex's lawyer is correct.

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Answered on 8/25/08, 11:40 pm


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