Divorce Lawyer Explain: Rules of Modifying Child Support Orders

Attorney Laura Johns explains when child support can be modified. Laura is a divorce attorney with Right Divorce Lawyers. For over 14 years Right Divorce Lawyers has helped people with divorce, legal separation, and annulments.

Temporary orders are rules a judge makes to span the time between the initial divorce filing and when the case is ultimately resolved with a final divorce decree. Temporary orders may pertain to child custody, child vistation, child support payments, spousal support payments, or exclusive use of the parties' primary residence. Often temporary orders are necessary to prevent chaos during the months that the divorce case is pending.

Divorce attorney Stacy Rocheleau explains Nevada's Best Interest Factors. These are the factors the courts look at in determining custody.

The Las Vegas family court uses the best interest factors to determine custody rulings. Their are around 11 main factors that you should consider if you are looking to file for child custody.

Family Law attorney discusses modifying a child support order. For more than 10 years, the attorneys at Right Divorce Lawyers have helped Las Vegas residents during the divorce process. For spouses that have children, issues of child custody and child support take priority over everything else. Child support can affect both spouses for many years after the divorce. For instance, if a couple divorces when their child is 3 years old, the court may order child support for 15 years, until the child turns 18. It's nearly impossible that one of the spouse's financial situation will change during that time, so many people ask whether or not the court will alter the amount of child support in ...

How is Child Support Calculated? Nevada is a community property state, so all property and debt are usually divided 50/50, if acquired during the course of the marriage. Of course, parties can agree to any other type of division they want, but if it's up to the court to decide, community property and debts are divided equally. Get clarity on Nevada’s child support laws. Call (702) 914-0400 now to schedule a consultation and ensure you receive or pay the right amount.

Only a person who has experienced a divorce can understand how emotionally trying it can be. Spouses don't spend their marriage believing they will divorce, so finances and assets become extremely intertwined, making it difficult to split. Furthermore, any divorce that involves children may require a very careful approach. Most legal action involves two strangers who were involved in a car accident together or an employee and their employer. Although these types of cases can be exhausting for all parties involved, divorce stands out as a particularly difficult process. No matter what type of relationship a person has with their spouse, there is an inherent amount of emotional investment ...

Divorce attorney Meredith Weiner explains in this video when a party can modify child support. There are three events that can trigger a modification to child support in Las Vegas: (1) a change in income of more than 20%; (2) any change in the custodial arrangement and (3) every three years a party can file a motion to reevaluate child support.

Well, it starts with a husband and wife filling out our joint petition worksheet, which is on our website. This worksheet will walk them through all the different areas that they need to agree to and gives them a little bit of advice on how to agree to it or what to agree to. They fill this out, they send it to us, and we draft up the documents. It takes us about four to five days to have those documents ready, and we send it back to the husband and wife to review. They make any suggested changes; they give us any edits, maybe we spelled something wrong, and we fix that. But the most important thing is that the terms of the uncontested divorce are agreed to – that they have reached an ...

At Right Divorce Lawyers, the fees for an uncontested divorce start at a $1,000 fixed fee. If there are children and there needs to be a custody plan and child support then the fixed fee is $1,500. If an attorney is needed to negotiate or extra help with the terms, those fees would start around $2,500.