MODIFICATION OF CHILD SUPPORT

Faulkner Legal Group, P.A., an Orlando paternity law firm, handles a variety of child support modification related issues in the Orlando, Central Florida and surrounding areas as well as the State of Florida as a whole.  As an Orlando paternity lawyer, attorney David A. Faulkner represents clients with regard to modification of their existing child support orders.

SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES

If you have a previously court ordered child support arrangement in place, there are certain grounds that, if proven, may justify modifying the existing court order.  The parent seeking the modification must allege in a supplemental petition to modify and must ultimately prove the existence of one or more substantial changes in circumstances.  In order to be a substantial change in circumstances, it must be a material (not slight) change in circumstances.  Further, the change must be a change that was not contemplated at the time the original order was entered.  Also, the change must be one that was not voluntarily created by the parent seeking the modification.  An example of such a substantial change in circumstances might be that the payor or recipient parent's income has been reduced since the original order because he or she lost their job as the result of an involuntary layoff.  Conversely, it may be that the minor children's needs have increased.  There are of course a wide variety of possible changes in circumstances that might be found to be substantial in nature.    

WHERE TO GET LEGAL HELP?

If you have a Florida paternity child support modification issue you need help with, then contact Faulkner Legal Group, P.A. so that paternity attorney David A. Faulkner can inform you of your legal rights.  Call today.