Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

A legal excuse to delay a court date

My daughter will be 18 in March. Her dad has been fighting to not pay child support for the last year. We have a court date in Jan and I would love to put it off until hopefully March. Is there a legal excuse that I can use to be able to do this. Her dad has had nothing to do with her for the last two years and feels that he shouldn't have to help support her. For years, he only paid 200 for two kids. He makes 60,000 a year and does not want to pay the 660 that the judge ordered. When he was paying 200 he was fine with that now that he is said to pay more he is finding every excuse. In Jan, he is using to file for full custody when she will be 18 two months at the court date.

Thank you for any info you can give me.


Asked on 11/26/06, 9:36 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: A legal excuse to delay a court date

Why would you want to delay the matter of having

the court adjudicate your (former?)husband's apparent child support delinquency until March?

Such matters are usually better dealt with sooner rather than later unless, of course, some other matter has now intervened which may prevent you from keeping the January date.

And merely because the child's father may foolishly file a custody suit some two months before his child attains her majority is no reason at all to delay the child support matter until March as his case is likely to go precisely

nowhere----other than straight out of court.

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Answered on 11/26/06, 11:51 am


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