Can the court also award additional expenses with respect to the parties’ basic child support obligations?
In addition to calculating a straight child support award, the court may also award additional expenses with regard to the parties’ basic child support obligations. The most common expenses that are awarded are day care and health insurance expenses. The expenses for day care and health insurance can easily inflate a child support award to approach the size of a mortgage payment. If the parties have some dough, then the courts will also require the father/payor to pay for a share of any summer camp, and for the children’s extracurricular activities. The courts will also require the payor to pay for a share of the sports related activities, dance classes, music lessons, etc. If the parties have limited economic resources, then a court most often will hold that the expenses for these activities are part of the child support award. If the parties have money, then in most cases the court will make the payor front these expenses. The lesson to be learned is that getting divorced is not chea
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- Does the Court take into consideration the particular expenses of the parties when determining the amount of child support to be paid?
- Can the court also award additional expenses with respect to the parties basic child support obligations?
- Can the court also award additional expenses with respect to the parties’ basic child support obligations?
