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In your letter, you must identify who you are, state specifically what your change in circumstance is, and definitively request a review of your case. You will send this letter to the CSE caseworker assigned to your case in the regional office that enforces your order. You can find that information on the CSE website.

Before a child turns 18, and in certain circumstances beyond age 18, both parents are obligated by statute to support him or her. Neither parent can waive the child support obligation set forth in the Kentucky Child Support Guidelines.

How far does the noncustodial parent have to fall behind before the Child Support Office takes enforcement action? The noncustodial parent must be behind by the amount equal to one month's obligation.

Or, if a person believes that the facts justify terminating the child support obligation, e.g., because the child now lives with the parent paying the support to the other, they should also go to court. A local attorney in Kentucky should be able to help a person with this.

If you already have a child support order, you can ask the same court to raise or lower the amount of child support if there has been a “substantial change of circumstances” since the last order. To do this, you have to show the court there is a reason for the change.

There is no specific age when the court will listen to a child's opinion. Instead, the court will evaluate the child's maturity, reasoning, and relationship with both parents.

(3) The court may modify an order granting or denying visitation rights whenever modification would serve the best interests of the child; but the court shall not restrict a parent's visitation rights unless it finds that the visitation would endanger seriously the child's physical, mental, moral, or emotional health.

Both parents can agree about the amount of child support to be paid and ask the court to make this agreement part of a court order. But the court reviews the child support amount to make sure it is fair and in the child's best interest. In most cases, the court won't let child support be waived completely.

413.090 Action upon judgment, contract, or bond -- Fifteen-year limitation -- Action for child support arrearages -- Time to commence action tolled until obligations cease as to last child on order.