In 1999, federal law required the State of Florida to collect child support through a state disbursement unit (SDU). All payments are mailed to the State Disbursement Unit and are rapidly disbursed. To find out the status of a payment, you can either call the SDU’s...
Child Support Payments Generally, child support is a fairly clearly defined calculation based on the Child Support Guidelines Worksheet. Clicking here will download the worksheet for you. It was published in September 2012 and was still current as of the time of...
When the welfare of a child comes into play the parent who has received custody has an ally in the form of the Child Support Enforcement Division. Since the child was the product of the two members of the marital union, a portion of the financial responsibility for...
What do you think will happen to the structure of the American Family once Safer At Home is lifted? There could be a baby boom like we see 9 months after some hurricanes, or the stress of being in close quarters in an already rocky relationship could lead to more...
No-fault divorce eliminates the requirement of proving why you want a divorce. Someone used to have to be “at fault”. It used to be that to get a divorce, you had to prove your marriage partner had committed an act that was on a list of justifications for...
Unpaid Child Support, by the numbers. 43.4% custodial parents received all the child support they were owed in 2011. Around three-quarters (74.1% of custodial parents) received either full or partial payments. (Source: Census Bureau, “Custodial Mothers and...
