Child Support Alimony Calculator For Two Different Mothers In Washington
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For example, if you are the custodial parent with one child and your ex-spouse remarries and has a new child, the court may reduce your child support payments because your ex-spouse has a financial obligation to support both children.
Alimony is spousal support and provides financial assistance to one spouse from the other. It aims to help the recipient maintain a similar standard of living to the one they had during the marriage. On the other hand, child support is considered financial support for children.
How Child Support Is Calculated in Washington Step 1: Determine the Combined Monthly Net Income. Step 2: Find the Basic Support Obligation. Step 3: Calculate Each Parent's Share of Income. Step 4: Determine the Paying Parent's Support Obligation.
As a general rule of thumb, courts in Washington State award one year of alimony for every three or four years of marriage. There is no statute or case law explicitly stating this formula, but it is an oft mentioned rule and generally what courts can be expected to do.
A new child will not reduce future support unless you are under court order to support the new child, and actually paying. Even then there are no guarantees and you will get little sympathy given your history, plus judges frown on people who are behind on support fathering more children.
The Guidelines set a minimum child support amount of $91.00 per child per month.
Yes. Since there are different mothers, each can have their own child support case regardless of where they live or whom they live with if the father is not present.
071(1).) In Washington, you may seek to have your existing child support payments changed because of the financial burdens of supporting additional children in your new family.
