Washington State child support orders set out each parent’s responsibility for the child’s Extraordinary Medical Expenses.
This provision is found at paragraph 3.19 of the pattern form child support order.
An extraordinary medical expense is a medical expense which in one month amounts to more than 5% of the child support transfer payment.
If you are the parent receiving…
So you have an Order of Child Support (OCS) saying that you owe a certain amount each month – a transfer payment. Now what?
If you’re the parent who owes child support (usually, but not always, the non-residential parent), then you’re called the “Obligor” – that is, the parent obliged to pay support for your children. The other parent (your…
Stephen Worrall’s Georgia Family Law Blog offers lots of practical nation-wide information such as:
On a somewhat lighter note, Worrall writes that former NFL running back…
Historically, divorce has been a nasty business with equally nasty terminology. “Custody” and “alimony” conjure up images of bile-spewing, decades-long battles. Washington, like many states, has altered the terminology of many key divorce concepts in an effort to escape the loaded words of the bad old days, probably in the hope that more harmonious language will mean more harmonious litigation.…
