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when do you have to stop paying child support in canada?

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  • 8 years ago
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    If the child support is pursuant to a settlement or court order...then it's whenever the settlement or court order says you can stop paying.

    If there isn't, then the obligation to support dependants ceases when they're no longer dependant. So if my 16-year-old kid withdraws from parental control, I no longer have to support him. On the other hand, there's not necessarily an entitlement to cut off your kid at a particular age.

  • 8 years ago

    for the most part that is regulated by the Federal government

    rates of course are determined by their standards which vary slightly from one province to another

    you pay child support until your kid is able to support themselves and in the event they decide to attend University [ which the family could not afford before the break up] you continue to pay until the little darlings Graduate

    if they make the decision to become Career Students and spend 10 to 20 years chasing various University Degrees of no real value you must continue to support them

    you probably do not have to pay for the Cost of University unless of course you have a great deal of wealth

    if you lose income arrange a court hearing immediately to have your level of support adjusted

    no court decision is retroactive so if your support is set at say 500 a month per kid and your income gets cut to the point you can only afford 100 you end up owing 400 a month plus interest from the time you start paying 100 a month until the court adjusts your required support

    my brother owes $65 K + and Ontario revoked his license and Passport

    he was doing contract work stateside so now that income source is non existent and he is really screwed

    if you were lucky enough to be out of work when the support was set you may pay nothing

    and it will stay that way as long as you live in Poverty under $8K a year

  • ?
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    5 years ago

    You made the youngster and considering the fact that you "performed", you will pay....for the subsequent 18 years! The humorous element about newborn help is that you'll be able to circumvent it for a time yet you won't be able to in any respect ever get away it. It and compound interest keep piling up. you won't be able to even bypass bankrupt on it. no longer basically that yet in case you attempt to circumvent it, the courts ought to cost you with contempt-of-courtroom and placed you in penitentiary or get rid of your motive force's license and/or passport. and also you may nonetheless owe as that debt not in any respect ever expires. If mandatory, they'll wait and take it out of your old age pension. because you've gotten to pay contained in the full, this is better to initiate paying now. Now as on your second pastime, i do not imagine the courts will be inspired with you causes for quitting. And as for the cart, your nutrition, employ, etc., your infant is probability free and benefits help. you won't be able to tell the newborn which he/she will be able to't eat immediately or have a roof over their head because you ought to pay the automobile employ. It basically would not paintings that way. Now that you've the newborn, the courts, i imagine you'll discover, will rule that this should be your new quantity one duty. And as for shifting to Canada, they don't take criminals (that is what you'd be in case you attempt to run and keep away from your newborn help). the second one they discover out you're dealing with a criminal for no longer paying newborn help, you'd be deported! Assuming, obviously, that you're even eligible to bypass to Canada contained in the first position. enable me reiterate. you won't be able to circumvent newborn help in any respect. there is no longer something you ought to do to end it. or perhaps if you do bypass to a distinct u . s . a ., you'll nonetheless owe the money and this is going to easily pile up. till you bypass to China, take out chinese citizenship, and renounce your American citizenship (not in any respect returning to united statesa.), there is no incorrect way that i comprehend that you'll be able to circumvent it, till, obviously, you drop lifeless. Take care.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    when the bithc has finally sucked you dry.

    Usually after they finish school and are 18. sometimes into college.

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