North Carolina Motion to Withhold Wages to Enforce Child Support Order

Parents are required to support a child until the child turns 20 if the child has not yet graduated and remains in high school. In that case, child support will continue until the child graduates, stops attending school regularly, fails to make satisfactory academic progress, or reaches age 20, whichever happens first.

What if, as North Carolina law provides, the support ends at age 18 or high school termination, whichever comes later? In such a case, it might be necessary to attach a copy of the high school diploma or the school transcript to the motion to end child support.

Once you have a child support attorney, you can petition the appropriate court to put a stop to your child support payments. You are going to have to attend a court hearing and prove that your obligation should end.

In North Carolina, both parents must provide child support. Generally, however, only the non-custodial parent actually makes payments. The custodial parent remains responsible for child support too, but the law assumes that this parent spends the required amount directly on the child.

In general, parents are not obligated to financially support a child once the child reaches the age of 18.In that case, child support will continue until the child graduates, stops attending school regularly, fails to make satisfactory academic progress, or reaches age 20, whichever happens first.

Temporally, retroactive child support addresses reasonable expenses for the child's care that accumulated in the time period before the custodial parent filed a claim for child support. As of 2011 in North Carolina, retroactive child support is limited to three (3) years.

North Carolina recognizes a ten year statute of limitation on the collection of child support.

In North Carolina, NC Gen. Stat. §50-13.4 requires child support to be paid until a child is age 18 or graduates from high school, whichever is longer. Support may end sooner than that if a child becomes emancipated.

There is also generally a minimum support obligation for parents with low incomes. When a parent obliged to pay child support makes less than $1,108 per month (as of January 1, 2019), the guidelines require a minimum support order of $50 per month.