No. If you withhold child support because a spouse will not allow you to exercise your visitation you are taking the law into your own hands and may be held in contempt of court. You should contact an attorney at Hatch, Little & Bunn, LLP who will advise you on what action you need to take to ensure that your visitation rights are not interfered with in the future.

No. Proper enforcement of visitation or parenting time rights begins with filing a petition or referring the matter to mediation. Persistent violation of a court-ordered right to visitation or parenting time can be grounds for a change of primary residential parent. There are only a few things in life more difficult or more expensive than disputes over parenting time and final decision-making authority. Be sure that you want these designations for the right reasons.

No. If you withhold visitation because a spouse will not pay his or her child support, you are taking the law into your own hands and may be held in contempt of court. If your spouse will not pay child support, you should see an attorney who will advise you on how to recover the lost child support payments and to further ensure that your spouse continues to make timely payments in the future.

Generally, child support and visitation are not dependent on each other. You cannot deny visitation if the other parent won't pay child support unless you have a signed agreement that specifically and clearly links the obligation to pay child support to the right of visitation. If you are not receiving child support as ordered by the court, you can ask the court to hold the other parent in contempt for not paying. Read more about enforcing support orders. Generally, no.

No. Visitation rights may not be denied to the non-custodial parent, even though the non-custodial parent is not paying child support.

Rule 4-8.4(h) of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar prohibits a lawyer from wilfully refusing to timely pay a child support obligation. Before a complaint may be filed, the court must first make a finding of willful refusal to pay. This rule should not be used as the primary means for collecting child support, but should be used only after all other available remedies for the collection have been exhausted.

No. Visitation or parenting time will not be prevented unless a court order says so. Failure to pay child support is not grounds for termination of visitation or parenting time rights. To collect child support, there are other collection options, such as filing a petition for contempt seeking to put the non-paying parent in jail.

No. You must give the other parent the parenting time ordered even if child support is not being paid.

You may seek a court order defining your visitation rights. Violation of this court order will result in the custodial parent being held in contempt of court. Read more about visitation. There is a complete list of the Domestic Relations Forms available in PDF format. To view and print forms, you may be required to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Back to To Please note: When you get divorced you should have a new will, living will, and power of attorney.

Contact the Friend of the Court for enforcement if the back support equals at least one month of past due payments. Your complaint should be forwarded to your Judicial Service Officer either in writing, by phone, or you may appear in person at the Friend of the Court between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Distribution is a federally prescribed formula for determining how to apply payments to the various support accounts.

No. You can go to Court and ask to end the child support order until you receive your parenting time, but you cannot end payments without the Court's permission. The Court does not like to stop child support payments and it will allow support to be stopped only if there is proof that you have had very serious problems obtaining your parenting time.

Child support and visitation rights are separate issues. The court will determine both and will usually order the non-custodial parent to pay child support and the custodial parent to make the child available for visits. The custodial parent has a duty to obey the court order for visitation, even if the non-custodial parent cannot or will not pay child support. The court can enforce its orders against either parent.

Child Maintenance is payable for a qualifying child. Maintenance payments stop when there is no longer a qualifying child or a non-residential parent to pay it (see below for definitions).

According to current Ohio law, child support terminates when a child reaches age 18 and graduates from high school, but does not go beyond the 19th birthday (even if still a full time student). Other circumstances of emancipation include, but are not limited to, dropping out of school (but at least age 18), joining the military prior to age 18, and moving out of the residential home prior to age 18.

The obligation to pay child support stops in most cases when the child becomes emancipated. This occurs in most cases when the child turns 18 or graduated from high school, whichever occurs later. No. The parent paying the support must file a motion with the court to have the amount of support reduced.

In Utah, the Office of Recovery Services' Child Support Services and Children in Care programs pursue paternity establishment and child support collection in two situations: When someone is receiving public assistance or if children are put in the custody of the state, ORS receives the case automatically; and When someone applies for services because they need help obtaining or updating an order and collecting child support. ORS cannot get involved with custody and visitation issues.

Even after your divorce has been finalized, the Family Court has the authority to change existing child support, visitation and custody arrangements.

Yes, a Complaint for Modification may be filed seeking changes where there has been a "material change in circumstances".