How are Custody and Child Support decided in a divorce?
Bernalillo County is fortunate to have Court Clinic, a social work agency built into the divorce court. If there is a dispute about custody, the clinic will evaluate each parent and often the children to make a determination based on what would be in the best interests of the child. Typically, one parent gets primary physical custody of the children, while the other parent has visitation on specified dates. The parent who does not have primary physical custody usually pays child support to the other parent. Visitation schedules vary greatly. Sometimes one parent is granted sole physical custody, usually when the other parent poses some kind of threat to the children. In other cases, the parents may have equal time sharing, the children staying with one parent one week and the other parent the next week, or some similar arrangement. Child support is decided by the New Mexico Child Support Guidelines, a spreadsheet that automatically calculates child support, based on several factors, su
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- How are Custody and Child Support decided in a divorce?
