Under section 9 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines, the court may adjust child support in a situation in which the parents share the children on an approximately equal basis (generally understood that each of the parents have the child(ren) at least 40% of the time) so that the amount the parent with the larger […]

Child support is determined by the gross annual income of the payor parent and the number of children for which support is paid. The Federal Child Support Guidelines determine this amount. While variation from the set amount can happen due to such things as undue hardship or to allow for unusually high costs associated with […]

a. Generally, once a common-law couple has been together for two years, they have equal rights/obligations as a married couple which could include such things as division of family assets and debts and spousal support; however b. There is a strict time limit to when orders for division of family assets and spousal support can […]