Arizona Child Support Information.
I always start most of the child support information blogs with a reminder, that child support is for the overall care, health, and happiness of your child. It is for your child's well being. You would be taking care of your child if as parents you were a couple, so it is important to remember that, and not forget that child support is NOT a punishment, it is for your children. The child support courts always try to make child support fair, and they will not put a parents living conditions in jeopardy. Arizona child support can have either parent to pay child support, it is not always awarded to just the mother, many factors are looked at, and child custody and child support are totally separate issues in Arizona. Who pays child support in Arizona is not based on marital misconduct, but there are many factors to who, when, and how much child support will be. So here is a list of factors child support is based on.
1. Child support is for the overall care of your child, daily and basic needs, clothing, shelter.
2. Will child support need to cover any financial resources of the child?
3. What was the standard of living for the child during the marriage.
4. Will child support need to care for any physical and emotional needs of the child.
5. What is each parent paying, what are their financial obligations?
6. If there was any property held during the divorce for concealment or fraudulent purposes? This affects child support and child custody.
7. All expenses for duration and traveling time expenses that child support will need to pay?
Child support is usually set up to be paid through the courts, unless the spouses can come to other agreement, but at anytime there is a problem, child support can be set up to be paid through the court system. Child support can be modified at any time in Arizona if there is any substantial change. It can be from parents income or a change in living arrangements.