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Maine Child Support And Custody.

We have discussed information on several of the states child support.  Each state falls a little different on how and when child support should be paid and how much child support should be paid.  In Maine the child support is set on and based on different guidelines.  How much is to be paid depends a lot on how much both parents make.  In Maine if both parents are in agreement with the shared parental rights then most the time the courts will allow the parents to discuss who and when and where the child will be staying most of the time, child support is also based on where the child will be most of the time.  On which parent pays the child support.  If the parents are in no agreement and are fighting on who the child will be placed with and visitation rights, then the courts decide on the child stays, visitation of other parent, and with and who pays the child support.  Here is a list of how the courts determine who and why they child will be placed with a certain parent and child support.
  1. A lot determines on how old the child is.
  2. How the parents get along with the child, and each other.
  3. Who the child would most like to be with.
  4. Housing for the child, care and how the child would live, looking at the parents living arrangements.
  5. How the parents interact with the child on attention, love and guidance.
  6. Schooling, will the child be pulled away from a school he or she has been enrolled in for a long period of time.
 There are others, but these are the major areas the courts look into on who the child will be living with and where child support comes into play Child support in Maine can be paid a little differently; it is either how the parents agree or if the courts agree on this area of when and how child support is paid.  In Maine child support can be paid, by the week, monthly, or even quarterly payments of child support can be set up.  Child support is to be paid for the child until the reach the age of eighteen, unless the child has not graduated from high school, this can prolong child support being paid for a longer period of time.  Child support can be modified if there is certain changes, these changes can be, the child wanting to live with the other parent, a change in job, or location etc…

 

Posted: Jan 28 2008, 07:47 AM by ChildSupport | with no comments
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