Despite not being in a relationship with your children’s other parent, you both still have a legal obligation to provide monetarily for them. You both must ensure the children have clothing, medical care, schooling and other basic necessities in life.
However, you might face challenges in getting the other parent to pay their fair share. In that instance, you may find it best to hire legal counsel like a Downers Grove child support lawyer to petition the court for you.
Filing for Support
Even if you ask the other parent outright to pay for half of the children’s well-being, you may fail to get any money out of this person. You might have to take the legal step of filing for support from them.
When you have an experienced attorney on retainer, you can file the legal paperwork needed to prompt this person to pay what they legally owe. Your lawyer can make sure the case gets assigned to a family court judge as soon as possible. You may win a judgement from the court in a matter of weeks after you put the lawyer on retainer.
Your Downers Grove child support lawyer can also file motions to change the amount of child support awarded if circumstances change in your case. You can find out how to file this type of legal action and what steps are needed to go to court online. Reach out to the Dan Walker Law Office.
