Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

Prior to the Child Support Standards Act, there was a wide disparity of child support awards due to a lack of clear standards and formulas. In 1995, the Court of Appeals stepped in to provid guidance, ...

Child support is an important financial commitment for families following a divorce. Ordered by the court, one parent pays child support to the other parent to support the needs of their shared child ...

The federal government requires that states set guidelines for how child support amounts are determined. However, they generally have a free hand setting their own rules, meaning significant ...

Few things are more painful than going through a divorce. Trying to calculate child support on top of the emotional turmoil can be a big headache. A Raleigh law firm is using technology to make the ...

Last year, a law revising Louisiana's Child Support Guidelines went into effect. Changes involve how amounts are estimated ...

Q. Before we got married, my wife and I signed a prenuptial agreement. She had inherited some money and I had gotten into renovating homes until the year before we got married. By that point I had 10 ...