Legal Question in Family Law in Missouri

Hello, I live in Kansas, but the child support order is in Missouri. I have an 18 year old daughter that is in an accredited cosmotology school full time and was in a different college for general education, she had to drop at end of semester to enroll and start at the school she now attends. My ex husband said the state called him and said he has to emancipate her and stop paying child support because she dropped one school and started another, and he said his attorney has sent me out a letter i should be getting soon, and i have to sign the emancipation papers he sends or i will be in trouble and have a big court battle I have another little girl (not his child) that is handicap and has severe special needs and he knows i can not afford an attorney to see if he is telling the truth. Does this sound right to you for that state and should i sign that paper ? Thank you so much, Diane


Asked on 1/08/10, 7:24 pm

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

Do not sign the paper! You need to find a way to obtain the services of an attorney in the area where the chjild support order was issued. The only way the child support order is terminated will be if the father obtains a court order doing so which he is trying to get with your consent. Many Missouri judges will find that your child is continueing to satisfy the child support statute despite changing schools, and therefore the child support obligation should continue.

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Answered on 1/18/10, 2:48 pm


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