Reduce your Tennessee child support payments by 28.42%
Easily track and hold your co-parent accountable for non-essential child expenses.
Easily track and hold your co-parent accountable for non-essential child expenses.
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Tennessee Child Support Statute Section 36-5-101 requires both parents to pay for children's shared expenses. However, your co-parent may be overspending on unencessary items and then expect you to pay for them. By law, your co-parent should pay at least 50%. Also, if you are strugging financially, you can decline some of these expenses. If your co-parent feels that these expenses are necessary for your children, they should pay 100% for them. List of expenses that co-parents should share:
Whenever your co-parent prposes a new expense or asks you to reimburse them for one, you can request them record the expense with your service. You can also use our service to track your expenses for children. You can categorize every expense for your children and ask your co-parent to reimburse their share. If you fee that you have been paying too much, you can file for a Child Support Modification.
Children's expenses change as their needs change. They can decrease as well. However, your co-parent may still want you to keep on paying the same amount of Child support or additional expenses without any justification. It will be unfair to you to pay when there is no case for it.
Tennessee Child Support Statute Section 36-5-101 allows Tennessee co-parents to request a decrease in child support through the modification process. You can ask your co-parent to use our service to record all the expenses. If they fail to do so or submit unnecessary expenses, you can use it as evidence that they are getting more money than what they need. Tennessee family court will not modify child support if the decrease in expenses is insignificant. You will have to show that a substantial change has occurred.
If both co-parents are on good terms and agree that there needs to be a decrease in the Tennessee child support, they can draft an agreement with the help of an attorney, or a Tennessee licensed family mediator. It will require an approval from a Tennessee family court. Once the court issues an order, Tennessee child support agency will start deducting the reduced amount from the payer's paycheck.
If co-parents disagree on the child support modification, they will need to present their case in court. A judge will review all the documents including the expense reports from our service to determine whether a change in child support is appropriate. If your co-parent earns less or more than before, it will also be considered. Both parties will need to hire a Tennessee bar approved attorney to fight the case.
Your co-parent may request a Tennessee child support modification to increase the support amount. They may claim that they need more money fund children's activities or other costs. But they may be spending on things that are not important. By presenting the records through our service, you can prove that they do not need more money.
Do not quit your job to make a claim that you are a deadbeat and cannot afford to pay Tennessee child support. A Tennessee family court judge won't buy into that, and you will be responsible for the full child support plus the increase.