Access To Your Children
The child should spend sufficient time with both parents regardless of them being separated or divorced. The child should spend enough time in order to create a meaningful relationship with each parent. The child’s primary place of residence will decide the parent whom he/she spends the majority of time with. The other parent will be given the right to access the child.
How To Calculate Child Support
The Child Support Guidelines determine the basic monthly financial support to be provided by the paying parent. These are set out in the Government of Canada’s child support tables. They are calculated by taking into account the total gross annual income of the parents and the number of dependent children.
Child Support After My Kids Turn 18
A child above the age of 18 years, may still be considered as a dependent child based on the factors::
What is a Dependent Child?
“Dependent children” means a child below the age of 18 years. Sometimes, an individual is still considered a dependent even after the age of 18. However, a child cannot be regarded as a dependent if they are married. Further, a child who leaves a parent’s home voluntarily after turning 16 years old does not fall under the category of a dependent.
When A Parent Is Evading Child Support Payments
Sometimes a paying parent tries to avoid paying child support by concealing the total income earned or avoids child support payment by being underemployed, employed only on part time basis or working for cash. The paying parent may deliberately try to evade their responsibility by not reporting their total income earned and providing falsified information.
How Is My Income Used to Calculate Child Support?
The monthly amount of child support is based on the Provincial Child Support Guidelines and the Government of Canada’s Child Support Tables. The total amount is determined by the gross annual income of the paying parent and the number of dependent children.
Do I Still Pay Child Support If My Ex-Spouse Remarries?
The law requires all parents to provide financial assistance to their children. This assistance will be provided by a birth parent or an adoptive parent. Sometimes, the law may even require step-parents to pay child support as well.
CHILD SUPPORT: The Who, What’s, and Where’s
The law requires all parents to financially support their dependent children. Children are “Dependent” until the age of 18 years or sometimes older in extra-ordinary such as post-secondary education. The parent of the child can include the birth parent, a non-birth parent, an adoptive parent or even a step-parent. Therefore, potentially any person having parental status must support their children.
How To Make Divorce a Nightmare For Your Kids
When going through a divorce there are always concerns for how the children will be affected. It is not necessarily the divorce that gives children a bad experience. Instead, they are affected by how well you and their other parent manage and model this experience in front of them. Your behaviour today will influence their own relationships later. These are ways some parents make their divorce the nightmare their kids won’t forget.
Using Pregnancy to Save a Marriage From Divorce
Separation is a traumatic life event that can bring out a lot of raw human emotions. In order to avoid this outcome, many couples will seek other options, such as couples’ counselling. However, others, in moments of desperation, will go to the extremes of getting pregnant or getting their spouse pregnant as a way of locking them into the relationship. This is dangerous behaviour that rarely, if ever, has a positive affect on the situation.
