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The biggest mistake in a custody battle is to overlook proper documentation and legal procedures. Failing to organize necessary North Dakota child custody forms with minor child can weaken your case. A well-documented plan shows the court that you are responsible and committed to the child's welfare.
14-07-15. Every parent or other person legally responsible for the care or support of a child who wholly abandons the child or willfully fails to furnish food, shelter, clothing, and medical attention reasonably necessary and sufficient to meet the child's needs is guilty of a class C felony.
Every parent or other person legally responsible for the care or support of a child who wholly abandons the child or willfully fails to furnish food, shelter, clothing, and medical attention reasonably necessary and sufficient to meet the child's needs is guilty of a class C felony.
For example, an obligor with a net monthly income of $2,000 will pay $431 to support one child and $562 for two children per North Dakota's guidelines (as of 2018).
There are no hard-and-fast rules as to the age at which a child is considered mature enough to testify as to a preference regarding residential responsibility. A court might find a ten year old in one case mature enough to express a preference, but find otherwise regarding a thirteen year old in another case.
In North Dakota, legal custody is known as in the statutes as "decision-making responsibility." The parents' custody order may specify the decision-making responsibility each parent has, but decision-making responsibility does not include decisions about child support. That is a separate determination.