CHICAGO - Illinois officials for the first time in decades are pushing a major overhaul of a system that touches one of the most volatile of all family issues: how child support is calculated. The ...

Recently enacted changes to the state’s child support formula and guidelines should have a dramatic effect on the amount paid by high-income earners. The amendment – enacted in the previous ...

The average child support payment for a noncustodial parent is $430 a month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That comes to $5,160 a year, or more than $92,880 over 18 years, when a child becomes ...

New child support guidelines that took effect July 1 have been largely well-received by Maryland family law practitioners, though some attorneys say they’ve encountered “glitches” in the formula used ...