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Walk It Through: The Senior Year

Parents liable for support, a statewide guideline presumed correct, and support past 18.

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. The guideline's figures, spousal support, 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.