Topics: Child Custody and Support - 45 results

The baby boom generation is aging and people are living longer, healthier lives, which means more and more grandparents are active participants in their grandchildren’s lives. They are also learning that they can pursue visitation rights when divorce or family dysfunction results in their being cut off from their grandchildren. Some grandparents need to be very persistent in order to successfully secure these rights. In a recent case in Wisconsin, for example, a couple spent two years and thousands of …

Dwyane Wade, NBA star guard for the Miami Heat, is turning up the heat on his ex-wife, childhood girlfriend Siovaughn Funches-Wade, who was arrested June 16 after allegedly refusing to return their two children on schedule to him. The couple had already been through a nasty divorce including a fight over the children, with Wade ultimately being awarded custody and his ex, who lives in Chicago, getting visitation rights. The boys, Zion age 5 and Zaire age 10, were scheduled …

A Florida man almost escaped $180,000 in past-due child support when his ex-wife and the state didn’t bother to claim the debt during his bankruptcy proceedings, but a federal court has affirmed that he still owes the money nevertheless . Man faced involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy State didn’t claim back support payments until after bankruptcy court had discharged them Important to pursue debts in a timely manner   Debt Still Stands When Michael Davis was forced to file for bankruptcy …

Retired basketballer Dennis “The Worm” Rodman was sentenced to 104 hours of community service and three years of probation last week. The sentence comes after Rodman was found guilty of contempt for failing to pay past-due child support. His lawyer says he hopes to work with at-risk youth as part of his sentence. Rodman’s third ex-wife Michelle says the NBA star owes her more than $750,000 in child support, though Rodman’s attorney argues that the amount of unpaid support is …

Moms are increasingly responsible for paying child support, according to a recent survey of divorce attorneys. Fifty-six percent of the attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) say they’ve seen an uptick in the number of female clients paying child support in the last three years. Forty-four percent of the attorneys surveyed said they’d seen no change in the number of women paying child support and none of the lawyers surveyed said they’d seen a decrease in …