Parents love their children and feel a sense of responsibility to provide for them financially. When parents live apart and share the responsibility of providing for a child they share, each of the parents is required to contribute to the support of the child. This includes things like providing the child with a safe place to live, food, clothing and other support. Because the child usually primarily resides with one parent , the other parent is responsible for proving more financial support in the form of child support.
The South Carolina family court will issue a child support order , which compels a parent to provide the other parent with a certain amount of child support on a regular basis. The amount of child support paid can be modified up or down, if there is a good reason for the amount of child support due needs to be modified, and at some point, a child support obligation will terminate.
There are several scenarios under which a child support obligation can be terminated in South Carolina, which are laid out in South Carolina Code, 63-3-530(17).
A child support obligation can be terminated if the child becomes emancipated, meaning that the child gets some of the legal freedoms that adults have. The parent must provide proof of the child’s emancipation. The following includes the eligibility requirements for emancipation:
Sometimes parents of a child reconcile their differences and decide that they want to raise their child together. In which case, the custodial parent can request that the family court dismiss the child support order. The child support obligation will no longer need to be paid unless the payor owes money to the state for other public assistance, such as Medicaid or welfare support.
If you need to request a modification of your child support obligation, or you have questions about whether you are still obligated to pay child support, please contact the experienced Charleston family lawyers at Sarji Law Firm, LLC today. Our team of lawyers are well-versed in the area of child support, so please get in touch with us by calling 843-323-4341.
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