The court must use the North Carolina guidelines when it enters a temporary or permanent child support order. However, it may deviate from those guidelines in certain situations.
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What is a Parenting Plan in North Carolina? How Do You Create One?
When a marriage ends, the role of being a parent does not. Most parents want to protect their children throughout the divorce process and minimize emotional or logistical challenges. One of the most effective tools for doing that is establishing a parenting plan in...
Managing Cross-State Child Custody Disputes
How to Handle Custody Across State Lines During a divorce, few issues are more emotional or complex than child custody. Most parents care deeply about maintaining strong relationships with their children - and that concern often continues even after parents begin...
Strategies for Effective Co-Parenting After a Difficult Divorce
After a difficult divorce, the truth is that you may not even feel like speaking to your spouse at all. You may be angry and hurt, and may be grieving the loss of the future you planned together. All of those feelings are entirely understandable. Unfortunately,...
Divorce When Your Spouse Has a Mental Illness
Divorce and Mental Illness in North Carolina: What You Need to Know Living with or supporting a spouse who struggles with mental illness can be emotionally exhausting and deeply complex. Mental health conditions affect millions of people every day. While treatment and...
What Happens If You Don’t Pay Child Support
Navigating North Carolina Child Support Enforcement: What Parents Need to Know In any divorce involving children, child support and child custody are two of the most important issues that parents will have to resolve. Most parents want the best for their children and...
How Is Child Support Calculated When A Parent Is Self-Employed?
Of all the issues a couple might confront during a divorce, issues involving children are often the most important. Certainly, parents want to do all that they can to support their children and help them move through the divorce process with as little stress as possible, and onto a better and brighter chapter ahead.
Child Support in North Carolina
What You Need to Know About Child Support in North Carolina Under North Carolina law, both parents certainly have the responsibility of providing support for their minor children in any number of ways – emotionally, physically, and financially. For the most part,...
How Do I Get Child Support in North Carolina?
There are few issues more important to most couples in the divorce process than those involving their children. Issues of child custody are usually first and foremost in the minds of most parents – and of course, that includes child support. What is child support? In...
Modifying Child Support in North Carolina
While all of us are very different, one thing that most of can agree upon is that more than almost anything, we love our children and want to provide for them. While North Carolina law does, of course, place the responsibility on parents to provide for their...
What is a Qualified Medical Child Support Order?
At the Law Office of Dustin S. McCrary, family law is our passion. We spend each and every day working with families, and have the opportunity to see how much parents love their children on a daily basis. Without question, most parents want to support their children...
If I have joint custody, do I still have to pay child support?
The short answer is, yes. Although you may have joint custody of your child, child support is an obligation that one parent will inevitably have to pay, specifically so, if one parent makes a higher income than the other or if the child is one with one parent more...
Extraordinary Expenses Beyond Child Support – Who Pays?
Without question, the majority of parents what the best for their children, and without question, most parents do their best each day to provide their children with what they need – not only healthy food, and medical treatment, and the necessities of everyday life,...
Grandparent Child Support
When most of us think of child support, we think of one parent paying support to the other for the children of their marriage following a divorce. And, in most situations, this is in fact the case. After all, parents have a legal duty to financially support their...
What you need to know about child support in North Carolina
Divorcing parents need to understand North Carolina guidelines for everything from calculating and filing child support claims to collecting child support and enforcing agreements.
Interest on IRAs as ‘Income’ for Purposes of Child Support
In many states, reasonable contributions to a retirement plan are not considered income. The interest is part of that contribution, and constitutes a legitimate retirement planning decision.
Who will pay for my child’s health insurance in a divorce?
North Carolina courts can order parents to pay a child’s medical expenses as a type of child support, including medical, dental, and hospital costs.
Is college tuition included in child support?
While North Carolina law does not provide for or address college tuition and expenses, parents can plan ahead and create an agreement for such expenses.
Health Insurance After Divorce in North Carolina
While there are several ramifications that can come from getting a divorce, losing your health insurance is a result that many people don’t consider.