Child support and visitation?

Question

How does child support and visitation work when the parents are in 2 different states?

Answer 1

Child support and visitation should not be considered as exclusive; that is, if the child stays a few weeks with the parent paying support, the amount of child support does not change. You also cannot stop a parent from seeing a child while their child support is in arrears.

Parents have to come to an amicable decision as to how much time and when a child will spend with the other non-custodial parent. I would think that the cost of transporting the child between states should be split, too.

Answer 2

Depends on what state you are in as far as visitation goes and what the law is for visitation for parents who are over 100 miles apart. In Texas standard visitation orders for over 100 miles are : 2 weekends a month, 30 days for summer, and alternating schedules for Christmas, & Thanksgiving.

Child support will go through your state's Attorney General's office.

Answer 3

Generally the state you are living in will go after the non-custodial parent and do most of the support work for you. as for visitation, hopefully you can be adult enough to work those things out without court action, otherwise, you go through a long process of mediation and lawers working it all out to the last detail. Like who pays for transportation of child when they go and how long they stay.

Answer 4

It normally does not affect child support... but visitation is normally 3 to 4 weeks during the summer and Christmas break... instead of every other weekend..

Answer 5

the state that the child lives in has jurisdiction (with exceptions of course) and when the parents split the time usually summers with one and holidays...