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00:00:07: Another practice area we focus on here at the McKinney Law Firm is all aspects of child support. Child support is governed by Florida statutes and there are something called child support guidelines. The court will look to those guidelines in determining what you or your
00:00:23: Spouse or parent of the child’s child support obligation is going to be. Even though there are guidelines, child support can be somewhat complicated. There are numerous factors that go into child support and it’s always advisable that you speak to a family law attorney to have them at least run the guidelines and determine which factors affect your child support, either raising the amount or lowering the amount. Another aspect of child support that we deal with here is modification of child support. Very often
00:00:52: Situations will change for example you could lose a job or you could be demoted or on the other hand your spouse could be promoted and his income or her income increases significantly if that’s the case you may have an opportunity to either lower your child support obligation or come back and have your
00:01:12: The other parent’s child support obligation modified upward. It’s definitely best that you speak to a family law attorney to determine whether that situation might apply to you. The family law attorney and here at McKinney Law Firm, we can run the guideline child support pretty easily and look at your new situation to determine whether you or the other parent would be subject to a modification of the child support amount.