Difference between revisions of "Changing Family Law Orders, Awards and Agreements Involving Child Support"

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*"Effective notice" doesn't mean the date of applying to court, but the date of notice of "any intention by the recipient parent that child support should be paid, or if it already is, that the current amount of child support needs to be re-negotiated" was given.
*"Effective notice" doesn't mean the date of applying to court, but the date of notice of "any intention by the recipient parent that child support should be paid, or if it already is, that the current amount of child support needs to be re-negotiated" was given.
*Except where there is some blameworthy conduct on the part of the payor, it will "usually be inappropriate" to go further back in time than three years from the date of the hearing.
*Except where there is some blameworthy conduct on the part of the payor, it will "usually be inappropriate" to go further back in time than three years from the date of the hearing.
*Where there is blameworthy conduct, "the presumptive date of retroactivity" will be the time the payor's "circumstances changed materially."
*Where there is blameworthy conduct, "the presumptive date of retroactivity" (i.e. the date back in time that the order should start from) will be the time the payor's "circumstances changed materially."


====How much retroactive child support should be ordered====
====How much retroactive child support should be ordered====

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