OT lawyer's -Child Support question

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§315.22. Termination of child support upon majority or emancipation; exceptions

A. When there is a child support award in a specific amount per child, the award for each child shall terminate automatically without any action by the obligor upon each child's attaining the age of majority, or upon emancipation relieving the child of the disabilities attached to minority.

B. When there is a child support award in globo for two or more children, the award shall terminate automatically and without any action by the obligor when the youngest child for whose benefit the award was made attains the age of majority or is emancipated relieving the child of the disabilities attached to minority.

C. An award of child support continues with respect to any unmarried child who attains the age of majority, or to a child who is emancipated relieving the child of the disabilities attached to minority, as long as the child is a full-time student in good standing in a secondary school or its equivalent, has not attained the age of nineteen, and is dependent upon either parent. Either the primary domiciliary parent or the major or emancipated child is the proper party to enforce an award of child support pursuant to this Subsection.

D. An award of child support continues with respect to any child who has a developmental disability, as defined in R.S. 28:451.2, until he attains the age of twenty-two, as long as the child is a full-time student in a secondary school. The primary domiciliary parent or legal guardian is the proper party to enforce an award of child support pursuant to this Subsection.

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In Louisiana, a notarized letter to the custodial parent notifying that the payments will cease on the day of the 18th birthday or graduation from HS is all that is needed. Then you file the letter with the court.

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That's what I thought.

Give the money straight to your daughter if she needs it.

When you're ex comes looking for that check...lets be honest she will, tell her to go sit on a cucumber.

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In my divorce mediation paperwork it was agreed between my ex and I that she would come off when she turned 18 years old and graduated high school

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Were these papers filed with the court? If so, then I don't know why you'd even need to file a motion to get another order to end the support payments when there's already documents filed with the court stating that the support payments would end once she's reached 18 and graduated HS, and those conditions have been met. Don't pay her anymore. Its my understanding in (at least in LA) that you can't be forced to pay CS once they reach 18 anyway.

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n't be forced to pay CS once they reach 18 anyway

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if still in HS, they need to graduate too

Heck, you've been paying this long, what's 4 more months going to do to you?

The system isn't always fair. Just take your lumps for now and you'll be in the clear.

Divorce laws are so fricked in this country. They rape frick men into the ground.

But I also laugh my arse off at divorced people with kids. Losers.

You get tired of taking lumps. The ex always tells me that's what it says on the paperwork. Trust me I had to spend 4k to get my oldest son off of child support that I payed her for 6 years even though he did not even live with her he lived with me. Now the PAPERWORK says child support ends when she turns 18 years old and graduates high school. Now I find out I have to go to a hearing in almost 4 months mean while she is still receiving child support from my paycheck because it is state ordered.
Now my lawyer tells me we can draw something up for her to sign if you don't want to wait for the hearing. My ex wife will not sign shite because she knows she will still get paid if she doesn't sign. bullshite