Walk It Through: The Senior Year
Support by the guidelines, back to separation for up to three years, and through high school to nineteen.
Two parents separate, and the parent the children live with asks the other for child support.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One family and one order. Spousal maintenance, custody, and enforcement are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Irretrievably brokenThe finding for a decree of dissolution, made when both spouses say so under oath, or one does and the other does not deny it, with one spouse domiciled in Arizona for ninety days before filing.
- Wilful or negligent misconductMisconduct connected with the employment that, as the reason for a discharge, disqualifies for the rest of that unemployment, until earning wages of five times the weekly benefit amount.