New York Family Law Blog

  Recently, NBA player Metta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest), was served with Family Court papers demanding that he pay $140,000 for his son’s private high school education as part of his obligation to pay...

Parents are obligated to financially support their children until the child reaches age 21 or is otherwise emancipated.  Grounds for emancipation prior to the child reaching age 21 include: Marriage (provided that the child...

In 2009, a Kansas man, William Marotta, answered a Craigslist ad posted by a lesbian couple seeking a sperm donor in order to help the couple conceive a child. The couple, Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner, decided that...

A Wisconsin judge recently sentenced Corey Curtis for his failure to pay over $100,000 of child support to the six mothers of his children and, as part of the sentence, the judge declared that Curtis may not father any...

The state of Indiana has recently passed a bill that drastically alters the length of a child support obligation. Generally, child support terminates when a child reaches the age of emancipation (sometimes known as the age of...