
What Happens to Child Support if You Lose Your Job?
A recent study explored the effects of unemployment on child support. Child support is payments made to a non-custodial parent by a custodial parent. In certain situations, child support may be a requirement. However, due to difficult economic times, many parents who want to provide for their children despite being unemployed have to face job loss and its potential effects on child support. Let's take a minute to think about this situation and help you figure out how you should approach the question of child support if you lose your job.
Does losing my work affect my obligation to pay child support?
When your income source disappears, your child support obligation does not immediately vanish. If you don't make your payments, arrears will keep mounting up until the court modifies the orde...