Get a blood test and find out if the child is yours first. It may not be. Please understand that this women may not actually know that you are the father. What happens is that when someone applies for welfare the State may force the to name a father as a condition of receiving government... View More

Go and talk to another attorney about your situation. Show them your divorce papers and explain why you think that your attorney didn't do a good job of representing you and get a second opinion. It may be that your attorney did an excellent job but there wasn't really a way to make you... View More

You can get free assistance for establishing child support anywhere in Oregon. Just go to the District Attorneys office in the county you live in. For Custody parenting time you can find forms at your local courthouse or on line that you can use to file. It would of course be better to have the... View More

Is this a question about your how to file your tax return? Assuming it is, the courts generally prefer that a couple that haven't gotten divorced yet look at the way to save the most taxes. You and your husband should agree to have an accountant or CPA prepare your return both ways - married... View More

Heck if I know. Please don't quote a single sentence out of a letter with no explanation of the full situation and expect some attorney to risk malpractice by giving an anonymous stranger legal advice on the internet. It getting good legal advice is important to you, you need to contact an... View More

You won't have any problem being involved in the child's life once the child is born and paternity is established. You do have to wait until the child is born however. If the mom will let your name be added to the birth certificate then your fatherhood will be legally establishes.... View More

You initially get paperwork that is only proposed child support. You need to request an administrative hearing and at the hearing put on your evidence. Then if things don't go well, you will be given an amount of time by which you can file an appeal. The appeal will move the case into... View More

The child support ordered, which is an inevitable part of getting divorced, can include money for professional child care to the extent that the children can't be left home with their older sibling. Your brother could end up paying A LOT OF MONEY for child care. So you really need to be... View More

It sounds like the problem is you choosing to stay with your abusive partner. Your partner has now power to take your son away. He can report whatever he wants to children's services. If you move out with your son and go to a stable living environment I can't imagine that... View More

Unfortunately the legal process to establish parenting time is often separate from the process that establishes child support. That is because the State has a federal mandate to pursue and collect child support any time someone requests any type of state assistance or even if the just ask the... View More

If someone meets the requirements of a psychological parent, https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/109.119, they could petition the court to be awarded custody or parenting time, but they are rarely awarded custody. Preference is given to placing children with their biological parents. Anytime that a... View More

No, you do not need a lawyer to ask for child support. You can submit your own "petition for custody and support" in an Oregon circuit court where the child is located. Most courts' webpages should have printable forms for submitting to the court and the fee should be $0. But a... View More

Your mother is the person with legal standing to deal with this. She need to get an attorney to assist her and figure out if the payments are for money owed because she didn't pay the full amount of the child support when it was originally due and payable to your father for the time you lived... View More

The judge has ruled and you are bound by the decision. You can appeal the judgment if the court's decision is not supported by substantial evidence and fewer than 30 days have elapsed since the judgment was entered. You may also file a motion to modify the order if your or the other... View More

You can first see if the district attorney will help you modify the child support order at no charge. Otherwise you will need to file to modify it yourself. There are forms at the courthouse you can use but you will need an attorney to help you because you will need to get the mother's... View More

The State gets to reimburse the State for the money the State paid you on assistance. You don't get both State assistance and child support. However, if the child support ordered monthly was greater then the monthly amount of State assistance ordered, you might be entitled to get paid the... View More

The mother cannot request that your son's parental rights be taken away. What she can request is a parenting plan that may limit his right to visit with his children or which will change custody of the children if they are technically in his custody but being cared for by others while he is... View More

It is fairly easy to create an estate plan that will completely disinherit your son. You just have to go and see an attorney and pay for the estate planning.

The child support can be discontinued if you prove he is not attending school or he is not successfully completing enough credit... View More

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As far as I know there is no requirement that the mother reports when the son stops living with her and frankly it wouldn't be workable. The custodial parent is entitled... View More

First of all, child support is only payable to the parent, it is never payable to the child with the exception that the court can order the support payable to an adult child age 18 to 21, but unless ordered it remains payable to the parent. Second, you can't retroactively modify child support... View More