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Getting Child Support for Your Special Needs Child

Ending a relationship that involves minor children is a difficult endeavor. Resolving issues surrounding custody and child support during an emotional time is another burden parents face. The stakes are even higher when a situation involves a special needs child. You may wonder if you are entitled to additional child support because your child is […]

Can a NC Child Support Order Be Modified?

If you’re a divorced parent or you were part of a paternity case, you may now be living under the terms of a child support order. Child support orders are legally-binding decrees from a family court that spell out when, how, and the amount of support that must be paid to help with the expenses […]

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When Can Child Support Stop in North Carolina?

Child support will often cease when a child reaches the age of 18, but there are special circumstances that may change this requirement. If you are asking yourself, “when can child support stop,” speak directly with a North Carolina child custody attorney at Breeden Law Office for the answers to all your child support questions. […]

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What Should I Do If My Ex Refuses to Pay Child Support?

Co-parenting can be a challenge. While other families might make it look like a breeze, you may feel like you are in a constant battle with your child’s other parent. That clash may come to a head when they refuse to pay child support. Now you have to figure out what to do in order […]

Can I Refuse Visitation for Non-Payment of Child Support?

When you share custody of your children with their other parent, child custody and support feel intertwined. They both directly relate to your children’s care and require a legal agreement or order. As linked as they are, they are not entirely dependent on each other. The payment or non-payment of child support does not change […]

What Are My Rights as an Unmarried Parent?

Despite how traditional our country and legal system can seem, parental rights are not based on being married. While there are a few laws that connect marriage and parenting, most child matters focus on the biological and legal relationship between the adult and minor. It should give you some comfort that as unmarried parents you […]

How Is Paternity Established in Court?

Establishing a child’s parentage when he or she is born into a marriage is usually quite simple. North Carolina automatically assumes a husband and wife are the parents of an infant born to the wife. Additionally, it is an easy process to establish paternity when the mother and father are in an amicable relationship. They […]

Parenting and Custody after Divorce

Deciding to get a divorce can be very painful for a couple – separating and starting their lives over after the marriage ends is both difficult and important. A couple with children is faced with an especially arduous task of trying to keep the lives of their kids as stress-free and normal as possible. Couples […]

Calculating North Carolina Child Support Payments

Caring for a child is not something that ends after divorce or the dissolution of a relationship. Most parents wish to remain active in a child’s life, even if they do not have primary physical custody. That being said, many divorcing or separated parents worry about child support payments. No one wants to be saddled […]