Seeking Child Support – Provinziano & AssociatesIf you are a custodial parent and need child support from the other spouse, time is of the essence as the court has no authority to order child support until a petition for support has been filed. If a client has been recently abandoned by the primary income-earner, the Provinziano Legal Team will lobby to get into court quickly and will seek immediate and effective child-support orders. Child support, once ordered, can be paid directly by the former spouse or, in certain cases, by garnishment of wages received directly from the former spouse’s employer.One of the most challenging things in a child support case is if one of the other parties is hiding their assets. Because it can be very difficult to figure out where exactly the money is. And a lot of times what we do is we utilize our broad knowledge from handling child support cases on a regular basis to retrieve the correct documents, analyze them, work with the right experts to figure out exactly where the money is hidden, so that we can really go in and pin point to the court and say, “This is exactly where the money is coming from”, or, “These are the sources where the money is coming from,” so we can prove that the children can get the support that they’re entitled to. One of the most complex child support cases that I’ve seen are many times where there’s a long history of arrears that are due. And we regularly handle many cases for clients where there are six figure child support balances, and six figure arrears that are owed, and the critical thing is the client may have that arrears, but how do you collect on that? And we work with the clients to understand what their options are so that they can best understand that unique, specific case, and how we can best achieve a resolution to them where they’re being compensated for all the money and effort that they put out for the child for all those years but never really received support in return. We represent at Provinziano & Associates both people seeking child support and defending against child support. And I think why that’s important for our client to understand is that we understand the pressures on both sides. So we understand the people that are facing having to pay child support as much as the people seeking child support. And so we can really take that burden off their shoulders and understand what they need in order to get them their goal in their case.