| How is Missouri child support determined? Missouri | | | | use to collect child support? While wage |
| uses Form 14 to plug in the relevant numbers to | | | | withholding or wage garnishment is the most |
| determine support. This formula is the presumed | | | | common method you can use a wide variety of |
| child support amount though the parents may | | | | tools. If they have it or will pay to keep it you |
| agree to a different number. The paying parent | | | | can attach it in some way. I once knew a lawyer |
| often thinks he or she is getting the bad end of | | | | who seized a guy's dog and he coughed up the |
| the deal, but the formula is set to approximate | | | | money. This is not a normal approach though. |
| how much the non-custodial parent would be | | | | Normally your private child support collector would |
| contributing to the child if the family was in tact. | | | | look for things like bank accounts, brokerage |
| This covers not only obvious costs like food and | | | | accounts, real estate, and vehicles and seize them. |
| clothes, but includes things like housing, gas, | | | | At what age does child support automatically |
| insurance and utilities. Parents know there are a | | | | terminate? The simple answer is 18. But the |
| thousand little costs that go into providing for a | | | | answer is not simple. If your child has not yet |
| child. | | | | graduated from high school when they turn 18 |
| Does the Missouri child support order include | | | | you are still entitled to support until they graduate. |
| medical expenses? It will always address medical | | | | If they get married, join the military or otherwise |
| expenses. A common scheme is to order the | | | | become emancipated before 18 or graduation |
| non-custodial parent to get whatever coverage | | | | then support ends. |
| he or she has available through work. Parents | | | | Does child support end when a child goes to |
| then often split any uncovered costs. This split | | | | college? Missouri requires the non-custodial parent |
| may be 50/50 or based on the percentages | | | | to continue paying support if the child enrolls in |
| calculated in Form 14. But judges are granted a lot | | | | college after high school. This support is due the |
| of freedom to address the specific family financial | | | | parent who had custody when the child was living |
| situation. | | | | at home and continues until the child turns 22 or |
| When can I increase my child support? Technically | | | | gets an undergraduate degree, whichever is first. |
| you can increase your support the next day if | | | | Many families modify this action on their own if |
| the circumstances warrant it. Normally a judge | | | | both parents contribute to the cost of college. |
| wants to see a sizable change in the amount of | | | | When does past due support expire? If you get |
| the support payment. Sizable is often defined as | | | | random payments it may never expire. In Missouri |
| 20%. The only way you can know this though is | | | | you always have until your child is 28 to collect |
| to run the present situation through the Form 14 | | | | the back support due you. If the original support |
| to see in your changes do to changes in parental | | | | ended after your child turned 18 you have 10 |
| income or child care expenses warrant an | | | | years from when it ended to collect. And to |
| increase. If going through child support | | | | extend it even further, you get 10 years from |
| enforcement you can ask them the reevaluate | | | | the date of the date payment so that if the |
| your support amount every 3 years. | | | | paying parent makes a forced payment when the |
| In addition to wage withholding what tools can I | | | | child is 27 you get 10 more years. |