Are Child Support Orders Modifiable?
The answer is yes. A Child Support obligation is always modifiable, therefore if you are responsible for support payments, and you loss your job, or receive a pay cut, you can have your support obligation lowered. If you receive child support, you can have the payments increased if the other parent receives a pay raise. There simply needs to be a change in circumstances in either of the parents’ income. However, the Court will never automatically make any changes to the Order. A party must go to Court and request the change. Therefore, it is important that the parents keep abreast of what’s going on in the child support case.
