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If you are involved in a divorce or child custody case, it is critical to speak to an experienced child support attorney to protect your financial rights so that you receive or pay the correct child support amount with all included and excluded deductions. The attorneys at The Law Office of Tiffany M. Hughes are profoundly skilled in this area of the law and have vast experience representing parents on either side with simple and complex child support issues.
Child support is supposed to cover your child’s basic necessities, such as costs for food, clothing, living, and household expenses for your child. Child support is not established or intended to reward or punish either parent. A parent’s obligation to pay child support lasts until the child turns 18 years of age, unless the child is still attending high school at that time, in which case the obligation continues until the child graduates from high school or turns 19 years of age, whichever occurs first.
In addition to child support, you can also be entitled to contribution from the other parent for daycare expenses, health insurance expenses, school expenses, religious expenses, and out of pocket medical expenses, our attorneys ensure are included in the child support order. Working with an experienced child support attorney is imperative to ensure that your child is receiving the maximum amount of financial support that he or she deserves.
The new Illinois child support laws that took effect on July 1, 2017 now consider both parents’ incomes and certain expenses and deductions in calculating child support. The Law Office of Tiffany M. Hughes is one of the most reputable and highly regarding family law firms in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in child support and child support calculations.
Our Firm has access to the software that the Judge’s use to calculate child support to ensure that the calculations are accurate and provide you with the best outcome. If you do not hire a family law attorney, your child support will likely be calculated based on only some factors and deductions, and may not take into account other relevant factors that could raise or lower a child support obligation. Our attorneys have a complete understanding of every relevant factor that is considered when calculating child support, such as certain tax deductions, your tax filing status, child care expenses, mandatory pension, union dues, health insurance expenses, life insurance expenses and parenting time. Our firm utilizes the best software program so we can run your child support calculations to provide you with the best possible outcome.
If you are unsure what the other parent earns, we are here to help you obtain proof of the other parent’s income from every possible source through the legal process of “discovery”. Discovery means that we can require the other parent to disclose all of their financial information by filling out a financial affidavit, and by forcing the other parent to tender to us their pay statements, tax returns and bank statements. If you think the other parent may be hiding income through a financial account or through any other source, we can issue a subpoena and employ a number of other strategical legal tools to obtain any and all relevant financial information.
If you are involved in a divorce or child custody case that involves minor children, it is imperative that you consult with an attorney to ensure that you are either receiving the maximum support that you are entitled to, or paying the lowest amount of child support that you are obligated to taking into account your other financial obligations. The respected family law attorneys at The Law Office of Tiffany M. Hughes have the knowledge, skill and experience that you want and need figthing for you. We successfully represent clients on either side of all complex and simple child support issues.
For more information on how the reputable family law attorneys at The Law Office of Tiffany M. Hughes, P.C. can help you with your child support case in Cook, Kane, DuPage, Lake, Will, McHenry, and surrounding counties, contact us immediately to schedule your complementary consultation today at 773-893-0228.