Posted on November 15, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Courtesy of the Mississippi Family Law Blog comes this truly bizarre story of the lenghts that one man went to to try and avoid a child support obligation. Very bizarre:
Two Army colonels face criminal charges over DNA scam
When I served in the military, random drug testing was standard and steps were taken to ensure that [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Here is a great Q&A from Bankrate.com. The advice in the answer applies not only to student loans, but to overdue child support.
Q:
My wife had a student loan, but the school went bankrupt before she could finish the course. She did not get her training and the school kept all tuitions. For the past 17 [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Many thanks to Dustin Jones for the following post on his blog, All Things Pennsylvania Family Law, concerning what would appear to be a very, very significant ruling from the Pennsylvania Superior Court, our state’s intermediate appellate court. As soon as I can obatain a copy of the court’s opinion, I will post it here. [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
It often leads to a reversal at the appellate level, as happened in the case of Ney v. Ney, in which the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed a trail level decision denying a father’s request for modification of his support obligations.
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Posted on February 1, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Dustin Jones recently posted the following helpful discussion concerning the modification of child support obligations on his blog All Things Pennsylvania Family Law:
Here is a factual situation which is not atypical:
Mother pays child support to Father, based upon earnings of $100,000 per year. Mother loses her job, and takes a lower paying job earning $50,000. [...]
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