Modifying support

North Carolina Divorce Law Divorce and Separation Answers
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Here are some questions:

  1. Where is her legal residence - at your home or his?
  2. Who transports her to this school?
  3. If/when she was not attending the school where would she live?
    Support amounts are affected by who has the child overnights and this is determined by the custody arrangements. Support pays for upkeep of households, utilities, clothing, medical, expenses for the child, etc.
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Dear kurt:

Greetings. Yes, it may be possible to have child support reduced or changed - is someone paying for school? If so, then I doubt you are going to get it changed. Have her contact child support enforcement agency. Good luck.

Janet L. Fritts
Attorney with Rosen Law Firm

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My Wifes ex husband receives child support for her dayughter who was living with him full time at the time of the Order. Now she attends a magnet school that has free room and board. On a normal month she only visits him one weekend. With summer, holidays, etc., she spends less than half a calander year resising at his house. Is it p[ossile to have child support reduced to reflet this new living condition? This started last August but she still has another year. My wife is a ssuming she can’t get any retroactive changes but she hopes it will begin on the hearing date. Does she have a case here?