Tennessee Motion to Terminate Child Support
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In general, to request that a court modify child support, a parent's lawyer will draft a petition to modify child support alleging the necessary factual and legal requirements, will file that petition in the applicable court clerk's office, and will then have that petition served on the other parent.
However, four months of continuous, voluntary failure to visit a child by the parent often results in termination of parental rights by a court on the ground of Abandonment.
Tennessee. With the approval of the court, the parties have the right to compromise and settle child support arrears owed directly to the person owed support (family-owed arrears). State-owed debt cannot be forgiven.
Even if both parents come to the decision to terminate child support payments, the court must still be petitioned for child support to be legally terminated. In fact, even if the child is no longer a minor or is emancipated, the court must still be petitioned.
How To Terminate Child Support Payments. You must make a motion with the courts to terminate child support when the age of eighteen or high school graduation (whichever happens second) is reached. Be careful and resist the urge to stop payments without going through the court.
Rule 1240-02-04 of the Tennessee Child Support guidelines reads that an alternative residential parent may still have to pay child support to the primary residential parent if he or she has a higher income, even if an alternative residential parent shares joint custody and equal parenting time.
