Adjusting Child Support: What Are Your Options?

Questioner

I pay child support for my daughter, now my partner has started working part-time and then I lost my job, so our income has halved. How can I find out what my current capacity to pay is? and whether I am entitled to adjust my alimony? and how can I do this?

Lawyer

Of course, you may never unilaterally change child support. There are two possibilities, in consultation with the person entitled to support (you should record the new temporary agreements in writing) or via a petition to the judge. On the internet you will find sufficient resources to calculate your capacity to pay. The LBIO will do this for you for a reasonable price. Your ex-partner must be prepared to provide her financial data. The income of a partner with whom you are not married or with whom you do not have a registered partnership does not affect your ability to pay. The fact that you can now share the costs of living does.