A Columbus Ohio Child Support Attorney article about Ohio Child Support and the mistaken beliefs about the law that are surprisingly common.
These are things that people sometimes mistakenly believe about child support. They are wrong – the following statements are FALSE.
1. If you are ordered to pay child support, then you have a legal right to visit your child.
2. If your ex does not let you see your child, you do not have to pay child support.
3. If you are paying child support, you have an automatic right to claim the Child as a dependent on your income tax return.
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4. A call to child support enforcement to fix a problem with your case is just as effective as writing a letter.
5. If you give your ex money directly, rather than paying it through child support, that still counts as child support.
6. There is no real consequence to failure to pay child support. All that stuff about people going to jail, losing their driver’s license, losing their professional license – that’s all just media hype. That won’t happen to you.
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7. If you just work under the table and don’t own anything in your name, you’ll eventually escape paying your child support obligation. It will be worth it in the end.
8. If you have shared parenting, you don’t have to pay child support and cannot receive child support.
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9. If parenting time is split 50/50, neither parent will have to pay any child support.
10. It is the Child Support Enforcement Agency’s, or CSEA’s, job to track you down. If you move or switch jobs, but your ex or the CSEA could have tracked you down if they really wanted to, nothing bad can happen to you for failing to fill out the proper forms. If you call the CSEA, but don’t fill out the proper forms and send them in – no big deal. What’s the worst that could happen?
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If one is ordered to pay child support and eventually both parents live in the same home again, does this mean the support is null and void? Also if support is not current and has not been for several years but the non custodial parent is working, what recourse does the custodial parent have?