Kansas City Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Friday, February 8, 2013. Today’s post will continue on the topic covered in our post earlier this week. We were discussing the model or system used in Illinois when calculating child support payments after parents choose to divorce or separate. Although there is some agreement among lawmakers that Illinois should change to an income shared model as opposed to its current system of “percentage of obligatory net income,” lawmakers are still trying to draft legislation to present to the General Assembly. This legislation was actually expected last spring,

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Almost two years ago, the Illinois Child Support Advisory Committee made recommendations on changing how Illinois calculates child support payments. Currently, 38 other states have already reformed the models used in the 1980s to determine child support, but Illinois is not among them. The state does not appear to be motivated to act quickly on updating its outdated child support system. Many fathers are no doubt very interested in seeing some change on the state level when it comes to child support issues. One

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Friday, January 25, 2013. Illinois native and teen rapper Chief Keef is facing a lawsuit for unpaid child support. However, due to certain laws in Illinois, the case has somewhat of a twist to it. At the time of conception, Keef was a minor at 15 years old. The mother of the child was also a minor. At this point she is in middle school. Reading this, one would think that since both were minors at the time of conception that no laws were broken. However, due to

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Friday, January 18, 2013. In recent months there have been two cases stemming from unpaid child support that have resulted in rather unusual sentencing guidelines. For fathers living in Illinois, the outcomes of these cases only stresses the importance of having a full understanding of how child support works and making sure it is paid on time. If it is believed this is going to be a problem, this concerns need to be raised immediately. In the most recent case, earlier this week, a father was ordered to

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Wednesday, January 16, 2013. A state’s Court of Appeals recently denied an appeal by a man who claims he should not have to pay child support because his ex-wife was impregnated by artificial insemination. In looking at this case, the man and woman married in 2001. Due to a previous vasectomy, the couple looked into artificial insemination in order to have a family. A friend of the family ended up providing the sperm and the wife gave birth in 2004 to a baby boy. Two year later, again