Sign Child Support Modification

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let's talk about child support motion to modify template so as you of course know there's several reasons you might need to modify child support perhaps the amount is not high enough the payor is making more money now or maybe it's too high maybe the payor is your client and the payor lost their job so we need to modify it down or maybe it's being paid to the wrong person because that children have been sent to someone else maybe the grandparents have taken over the children because one of the parents isn't doing well psychologically or they're on drugs or something horrible like that so we have on our template a checklist of things to remind you or your staff about when you're doing a child support motion to modify first thing is to send a letter to opposing parties so if this applies to send a letter and ask them if without sending formal discovery they'll just provide you with current income information of course if you're within a year you may have trouble modifying child support if it's been three years and it was court-ordered originally then you're gonna have a pretty good chance if the change has been twenty percent or more so before you bother you know that with the expense of formal discovery we just suggest sending a letter saying hey will you provide us current income information and that's assuming you know who the lawyer is that they had a lawyer at the divorce if or the underlying suit and that you know who the lawyer is if you're asking for above guidelines and support of course that's a little trickier and if you want it you have to plead for it so you'll want to look at the Texas Family Code 154 123 and it lists all the factors that the court can consider but the court can consider them if you don't plead for it so it's just a reminder to put that in your pleading if if you have that issue the other thing that you have to plead for your threshold requirement is to show a change of circumstance and so there's a reminder that if it's been three years and 20% like we talked about that is a change of circumstance only if the prior order was ordered by the court it does not apply to agreement so you want to be aware of that that's a common misunderstanding so another tip that we have here is guidelines the court will apply guidelines in most cases there is a slight break and a reminder here that there's a slight break if the payor has children that they're legally responsible for other children if there's a slight break if the payor is paying for health insurance for the child so you may need to send discovery let's say that they will not voluntarily provide you with that information then here's a way to assign someone to prepare...