Generally, a child support obligation in Arizona terminates when the child reaches the age of majority. However, the legislature amended the law to allow post-majority support for disabled adult children. In Mendoza v....

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on how the trial court should interpret full-time employment within the Arizona Child Support Guidelines and how to apply the calculation of parent’s income to calculate a child support...

When a party to a divorce whats to make changes to the child support amount (once the original decree has been entered), they must file a petition to modify child support. In order for the court to modify a child support...

The divorce decree contains the court’s original orders for child support payments. If a party seeks to change child support at a later date, that parent must file a petition to modify child support with the family...

Res Judicata, Laches and Statute of Limitations as Defenses to Family Support in Arizona When a person goes to court to resolve a legal issue, he or she cannot go to court again to resolve the same issue. The doctrine of res...

We want to talk to you about the required affidavit of child support arrears from a child support order of another state in Arizona. A parent may ask an Arizona court to enforce a child support order from a different state....

A divorced mother residing in Arizona can sue her ex-spouse for back child support. But can she sue in an Arizona court when the child support order was issued in another state and the father has no contacts with or...

Arizona courts only have jurisdiction over non-resident parents if they have sufficient contacts with the state. Otherwise, a court violates due process by hearing a case involving non-residents. When a non-resident father...

If a criminal law is so unclear that people cannot understand what it means, it cannot be enforced. The Constitution prohibits a state from enforcing criminal sanctions under a vague law. Sometimes the courts “beef up”...

In the case of Lambesis vs. Lambesis, the parties were divorced in 2013. Father was ordered to pay Mother $100.00 per month in alimony to Mother. Father subsequently filed a Petition to Modify Child Support requesting the...