2 Reasons To Hire A Child Support Attorney To Assist You
Posted on: 8 March 2017
A child support attorney can be one of the most effective and useful resources that you can have at your disposal if you and your ex-spouse are at odds over a child support issue, mostly because of the various ways in which the attorney can help resolve child support issues. Listed below are two reasons to hire a child support attorney to assist you.
Get Assistance With Collecting Support Payments
One of the most common child support issues that you are likely to run into is having an ex-spouse that is unwilling to pay his or her child support on time or in full. In some cases, you might have an issue with your ex-spouse being completely unwilling to give you even a portion of the child support payments. In that situation, one of the first things that a child support attorney can do to assist you is to contact your ex-spouse and your ex-spouse's attorney in order to remind them of the court order requiring the child support payments and the potential penalties for not paying, such as potentially going to jail.
Another way that a child support attorney can help you when it comes to your support payments is by completely taking your ex-spouse completely out of the equation when it comes to getting your money. This is because your child support attorney can typically contact a judge and explain that your ex-spouse is not paying his or her support payments and has not been paying for quite some time. As a result, the judge can often authorize wage garnishment in order to simply take the required money out of your ex-spouse's paychecks without your ex-spouse's input or agreement being necessary.
Renegotiate The Terms Of The Child Support Agreement
Another reason to hire a child support attorney to assist you is in order to renegotiate the terms the child support agreement if you are the one responsible for paying that child support. For example, if you are responsible for paying child support but have recently run into a situation that has cost you your job, resulted in lower wages, or simply have too many bills to pay the child support, an attorney can often approach your ex-spouse and a judge in order to adjust the terms of the child support agreement. In order to accomplish this, the attorney will have to prove to the judge that paying the previously agreed-upon amount of child support would actually impose an undue hardship on you, at which point the judge and your attorney will likely discuss what you are capable of paying in order to make the payments more manageable, mostly because you cannot be expected to pay the child support to the point where you are no longer able to feed yourself or pay your rent.
Contact a child support attorney, like one from Law Offices of Lynda Latta, LLC, today in order to discuss how he or she may be able to assist you with your child support issues. A child support attorney should be hired because he or she can help you get assistance with collecting child support payments as well as renegotiating the terms of the child support agreement if necessary.
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