Arkansas Child Support Forms

Create an Answer Document. First step to responding is creating your Answer document. Answer each issue of the Complaint. The substance of the Answer is a response to the Complaint document. Assert your affirmative defenses. File the answer with the court and serve the plaintiff.

Pro Se is usually used in federal court. Pro Per is usually used in state court. Go back to law school or read your Black's before giving advice. Or, in the interest of time, read the comment below posted by a non-lawyer which explains the difference quite thoroughly.

If the child support owed exceeds $10,000 or is overdue by more than two years, the offense is a felony that carries up to a two-year prison sentence.

Strategy Decisions: Having pro se representation means that the defendant solely calls the shots in their defense. This eliminates strategy disagreements between an attorney and client and the defendant feeling pressured to proceed with their case in a certain way.

Estimates of the pro se rate of family law overall averaged 67% in California, 73% in Florida's large counties, and 70% in some Wisconsin counties.

(C) Class B felony if the person owes more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in past-due child support, pursuant to a court order or by operation of law.

Litigants or parties representing themselves in court without the assistance of an attorney are known as pro se litigants. Pro se is Latin for in one's own behalf. The right to appear pro se in a civil case in federal court is defined by statute 28 U.S.C. § 1654.

The court orders a flat percentage of 25% of the non-custodial parent's income to be paid in child support to the custodial parent. Therefore, the non-custodial parent pays $500 per month in child support.

Tell him/her that you are "Pro Se" (meaning without an attorney) and you have a pro se motion to do whatever and that you need a hearing date and time. Listen to what she has to say and write it down. She should give you a time and date.