Trustworthy child support attorneys at Judnich Law. Our experienced team specializes in helping families navigate complex legal matters.
When you’re going through a divorce, there are a million things to consider and reconsider, especially when you have kids and you expect to need child support or be the parent to pay child support. Having an experienced child support attorney by your side to help you navigate these waters will make this process so much easier on you and ensure the child support calculation is fair and just for your particular situation.
At the law office of Judnich Law, all of our attorneys are highly experienced in all matters of family law including divorce, child custody and child support.
Contact us today for a consultation about your family law matter. Whether you are just beginning your divorce proceedings and you have children, or you need a modification to an existing Child Support Order, we can help.
When parents split up, the State and Court jurisdiction you reside in oversee the appropriate distribution of family financial resources to ensure the children’s continued care. This is known as child support.
In the State of Montana, paying child support when owed is obligatory. A person required to pay but who does not pay is subject to all kinds of penalties: interception of tax refunds, frozen assets, loss of driver’s license along with any recreational or occupational licenses, loss of passport privileges, and having a lien placed on property. The failure to pay can also be reported to credit agencies, tanking the debtor’s credit rating.
If income reductions have resulted in your inability to continue making payments as ordered, you should contact a child support attorney right away, before your account falls further in arrears, to make adjustments to your child support obligation. Changes can be made, but it is important to have all the correct boxes checked for Court approval before you attempt to do so; that’s where we come in.
In Montana, as part of Montana state law, we determine child support amount through a child support guideline calculator. There are laws in the State of Montana that govern the amount of child support owing. Of all facets of family law proceedings, the child support determination is the most straightforward. A parent’s support payment is based on simple math. However, correctly determining the math in your situation can become complicated by a variety of factors.
The State of Montana follows a structured child support calculator to appropriately determine child support payment obligations in any case. This is based upon many factors including income, parent custody arrangement, and other expenses. This child support payment calculation is not arbitrary but must be calculated correctly for the Court to approve the Child Support Order.
There is no limit on child support. Support is calculated by the structured child support guidelines the State sets forth.
The child support lawyer oversees the details of calculations for child support and ensures all is fair and just in child support calculations. The calculation itself is straightforward, yes. Once figures are input, the State’s calculator instantly determines a child support payment amount to be paid monthly.
But as it turns out, with regard to income, parents are not always 100% forthcoming in their reporting. Also, parents sometimes seek more visitation time just so they have to pay less child support, not because they actually want to spend more time with their kids. Particularly in these types of situations, having an experienced and adamant child support attorney on your side becomes essential. We will dig to get to the bottom of any less-than-truthful or dishonorable behavior, bring it to the surface, and proceed with justice and full fairness to the parties’ children.
The most important part of hiring an attorney, for any type of claim, is whether or not you like them and trust them to do an excellent job of advocating on your behalf.
In this particular area of law, you want your child support attorney sharp and knowledgeable not only about how to calculate child support, but also savvy enough about human nature to ensure everything is disclosed to allow for a fair child support calculation.
When you want to change the amounts of the child support payment you pay or receive, challenging a Child Support Order is as easy as a re-calculation and amendment of the child support guidelines that an experienced family law attorney in Montana can complete for you.
We proudly boast a lot of reasons why you should choose us here at Judnich Law to represent you in your child support issues as well as all other matters of family law.
Our highly experienced family law attorneys have helped hundreds of people just like you through their child support proceedings. We understand what you’re going through. And we do our best to alleviate stresses wherever we can for you.
One major way we can help make this whole process easier for you is to streamline your communications with our office. We’ve installed a state-of-the-art client portal system that allows all of our clients full access to their files at their own convenience. Whether you want to know when your next court date is or you want to look at a particular document again, it’s all in there for you. You can also upload new material through the portal, and you can send us a direct message. This client portal is one huge way that we can make this whole process just a little bit easier on you.
We also, from the very first meeting, want to be sure our working relationship is mutually satisfactory. We will evaluate your case to see if it will work for us, and as we do this, we want you to evaluate us to make sure you want us doing this work for you. Our client relations are very important to us here at Judnich Law. The legal battles we fight for you are taxing to all involved, and it’s critical for us to have positive and promising relationships with our clients.
Each of the attorneys in our law office is professional and highly experienced in all matters of family law. We know this area of law well. We also know how people try to finagle their way out of paying the child support payments they rightfully owe according to state law.
We’ve seen the tactics, and we don’t stand for them. We fight hard to ensure our clients receive what is rightfully theirs.
When you’re looking for an attorney to help you with your child support matters, no matter how convoluted or delicate those issues may be, we hope you keep us in mind.
Judnich Law proudly serves Montanans across this great state. With offices located in Missoula and Bozeman, you can get to us pretty easily.
We also happily schedule Zoom meetings.
We want to meet with you! We want to hear all about your child support situation and how we can help.
Whether you’re just now breaking away from the child’s other parent and your situation is rather urgent, or you want your case revisited because things have changed since the last Order of Child support was entered with the Court, we are here to help.
