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Expanded in 2013, Supplemental Probate and Family Court Rule 412 provides parties with the ability to jointly request that the Court modify an existing judgment or order administratively and without the need for a formal hearing.

While the standard answer is that child support can be modified every three years, exceptions are made when there is a substantial change in circumstances. If you've experienced a significant change in your income or your child's needs, it may be worth exploring your options for an earlier modification.

When it comes to child support, you can modify an order once every three years. Even if you aren't aware of a change in circumstances, you're entitled to a "checkup" every three years. It's in the new child support guidelines.

Common reasons for a court to increase child support: A substantial increase in the payor's income. A substantial decrease in the recipient's income. A substantial increase in the child's needs, such as medical or educational expenses. When parenting time is less than one-third for the person paying child support.

Although your child may have reached one of the milestones that allows for a termination of your support order you cannot automatically stop paying. Unless the child has reached the age of 23, the parent paying child support needs an order from the court prior to terminating payments.

If you want to terminate a child support order, it would either be terminated with the Child Support Enforcement Agency, if it is a administrative order, or a Court, if the order was established by a Court. Normally, you would file a request with the agency or a motion with the Court.

Thus, Massachusetts makes paying child support a statutory obligation and sets up the Child Support Enforcement Division to enforce orders by the judiciary regarding this matter. Records of these cases are mostly available to the public unless sealed by court order or statute.

If parents can agree that child support should end, they can go to a family court and request a modification from a judge. Ultimately, courts will decide is child support can be terminated or modified based on what they deem is in the best interest of child.

You can file a motion to withdraw the petition typically, yes. However, the court may deny the motion since the issue must normally be decided with regard to any children of the marriage and the court may find that the parent may not waive child support that the child is entitled under the child support guidelines.