When Child Support Ends
When subject to a child support, one may ask when child support ends? Does child support stop when a child turns eighteen? Child support terminates or ends in a number of circumstances. Ohio Revised Code 3119.88 (R.C. 3119.88) outlines the reasons why child support terminates. The statute says that the child support order should terminate if any of the following occur:
- The child is no longer attending high school upon turning eighteen years old.
- The child stops attending high school after turning eighteen years old.
- The child dies.
- The child gets married.
- The child becomes emancipated.
- The child enlists in the armed services.
- The child is deported.
- Legal custody of the child changes.
Within twenty days of getting a notice as set forth in R.C. 3119.87, the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) is required to complete an investigation to determine if child support should terminate. As you can see, child support stops not only with a change in custody, but when the child gets married, the child joins the military, the child is sent to another country by the INS, the child turns eighteen and is not in school, the child passes away, or the child is emancipated.
To read more, click on the following links to my other articles on property division, divorce and dissolution: termination of child support in Ohio, Ohio alimony issues, Ohio child support definitions, Ohio child support issues, divorce and dissolution in Ohio, and divorce and taxes.
Attorney Daniel Gigiano a Medina County child support attorney in Wadsworth, Ohio. Attorney Daniel Gigiano practices in the domestic relations and juvenile courts in Medina County, Wayne County and Summit County, as well as surrounding counties. If you have questions about this or other questions you need answered by an experienced Wadsworth child custody attorney in Medina County or an experienced Wadsworth family law attorney in Medina County, please call Attorney Daniel F. Gigiano at 330-336-3330. Attorney Gigiano has handled numerous child support cases in these and other courts.