How Can I Apply For Child Support Services?
If you are not receiving public assistance, you can apply for child support services through your county child support office. You will have to pay a onetime $25 application fee for these …
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After I Apply, What Else Must I Do?
You must take an active role in your case. Cooperating with the child support office improves your chances of successful support establishment and collection. The child support office cannot …
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What Happens When the Wedding is Called Off
When a wedding is called off there are often shattered dreams, broken promises and breaches of contracts that must be handled. Before you can rebuild your life and create new dreams you must determine each party’s entitlement to joint property and each party’s responsibility for joint obligations. General Rules of Property Division for Unmarried Couples Generally, any …
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The Best Interests of the Child Standard and Grandparent Visitation
If you are a grandparent and do not get along with your grandchild’s parents, do you have a right to see your grandchild even if the parents do not consent? Prior to 2000 the answer was a resounding yes. But now it is complicated. Prior to 2000 many states had statutes allowing grandparents to petition a court for a visitation order with their grandchildren if the parents …
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