Topics: Child Custody and Support - 45 results

Many divorced people dread the holidays because separation and custody agreements often have the kids scheduled to spend the holidays with just one parent. That can leave the kid-less mom or dad feeling lonely and wishing for more time with their children during this special time of year. However, there are ways to negotiate more time with your kids if you’re divorced. The key is communication and — if that fails — a willingness and ability to go back to …

Former football star Warren Sapp is seeking a reduction of the $2,500 per month he shells out in child support for one of his children. Sapp, who made over $82 million in his career as a defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders, declared bankruptcy earlier this year in Florida and is crying poor to try to get his payment reduced. However, there’s a fly in the ointment: Sapp signed a 2001 support agreement with Angela Sanders, …

Unexplained absences, furtive phone calls, mysterious credit card charges — there are all kinds of clues that a spouse may be having an affair. However, one piece of detective work that partners who think they’ve been cuckolded should not undertake is to intercept their spouse’s electronic communications, or stick a GPS transmitter on his or her car. With a plethora of technological options making it ever-easier to catch cheating lovers in the act, suspicious spouses need beware of taking the …

If you get hit with a big domestic support judgment against you, filing for bankruptcy could get you nowhere. That’s what a Michigan man found out recently when he tried to avoid paying $100,000 to the mother of his child in a custody dispute. After the state judge in their custody dispute case ordered Patrick Rugiero to pay Antonietta DiNardo $100,000 in attorney’s fees, he filed for bankruptcy in federal court. First ruling that the custody case could proceed (despite …

A Tennessee man who was tricked into paying child support by his ex-wife for a son that wasn’t his will be able to recover the money he gave to the mother, the state Supreme Court ruled this month. Chadwick Craig sued his ex, Tina Marie Hodge, in 2008 for $25,000 in child support and healthcare-related payments he had made for her son Kyle, along with other damages. For 15 years, Craig believed that he was Kyle’s father, only to learn …