Legal Question in Family Law in North Carolina

Calculating child support is relatively simple. North Carolina follows what are known as child support guidelines, meaning you plug in income information and a few other factors (if applicable) and 'poof' out pops a child support amount. Errors occur when child support is calculated with incorrect income figures or more likely, when factors such as daycare and insurance payments aren't properly accounted for. So while the current figure may or may not be correct, it is more likely that child support enforcement knows how they came up with what ever figure is the current flavor of the month - they just simply don't feel like taking the 2 minutes necessary to break it down for you. As to the garnishment, the easiest way to stop that is to simply quit your job. However, if your are all into eating and having a place to live and don't wanna quit your job, basically it comes down to this - unless you know how to properly calculate child support and prove it in Court, your options are to either: a) go with the figures they come up with b) hire a lawyer to make sure the calculations are being done correctly, negotiate a more favorable back support payment plan with everything coming out in one reasonable monthly garnishment.