Child Support in Hardin County: How Much Support Will I Get?
If you are planning to end a marriage that involves a minor child, or if you have a child that was born outside of a marriage, you may be concerned about how much child support you will receive. In Hardin County, the amount of child support you receive will depend on a wide array of factors. Custodial parents are often concerned that they will not receive enough support to adequately care for their children. The best thing you can do to ensure you will have the financial support you need to give your children the life they deserve is to retain a Hardin County family law attorney as soon as you know you will need to collect child support from the non-custodial parent.
The goal of child support in Hardin County is to ensure that the custodial parent has the ability to provide the children with the same quality of life they would receive if both parents lived together. There is no set amount that you will receive in child support. Instead, the amount that you will receive is based upon multiple factors most importantly the requirements of the Kentucky Child Support Guidelines.
The income of both you and the other parent of your child is one such factor. For example, if your income is very low and the other parent’s is quite high, the amount of child support you will receive will be higher than if the financial situations were reversed. Additional expenses you must incur to care for your child without living with the other parent, such as childcare, is also factored into the amount of child support you will be awarded. A portion of these expenses will be added to your support amount.
Extraordinary circumstances, including high educational expenses and medical bills, are also evaluated and sometimes added to the amount of your child support. High educational expenses typically occur when a child is attending private school. If both parents want the child to attend private school the cost of the education is generally split among the parents. However, if only one parent wants the child to attend private school that parent may be responsible for bearing that financial burden. Medical bills are considered to be extraordinary if they exceed $100 in out of pocket expenses in one year.
A skilled and experienced Hardin County family law lawyer can help you determine approximately how much money you can expect to be awarded for child support in Hardin County and can assist you in asking for the amount you need for your children. Do not wait until you have been awarded an inadequate amount of money in child support to contact an attorney as it is much harder to modify a child support order than it is to get set an initial child support amount.