What is the difference between an “income withholding order” and a “garnishment”?
Income withholding involves the withholding of child support from each periodic payment paid by an employer or the Social Security Administration. It is an ongoing order requiring the employer to withhold a certain amount for child support and/or maintenance (alimony). A garnishment, similarly, involves a court order to withhold certain monies. However, it is a ‘one-time’ process, such as a garnishment on a bank account. Subsequent garnishments require subsequent orders, unlike an income withholding order which requires the periodic withholding until further order. My child was placed in State custody, and is turning 18. Do I have to keep paying child support to the State when she turns 18? Under Kansas law, child support for a child terminates on that child’s 18th birthday, or when the child graduates from high school, whichever is later. If a child turns 18 during their senior year of high school, child support continues until June 30 of that year. My ex-spouse has stopped paying chi
