When a Custody or Support Order Needs To Be Changed
Your child wants to live with the other parent. You lost your job. Your ex got married or got a new job. You want to relocate to a new place.
No matter what has happened, if there has been a significant change in circumstances, it may be time to modify your child support and/or child custody order. At the Warwick and Greenville law offices of Hoopis & Hoopis, our family law attorneys help clients bring motions to modify child support and custody or defend against those motions.
When can you modify a child support or child custody order?
In order to be successful with a child support modification or child custody modification, you must be able to prove that there was a substantial change in circumstances. This could mean:
- Job loss/unemployment or other decrease in income
- Increase in a parent's income, such as a significant raise or new job
- Parental relocation
- A child's request to live/spend more time with another parent
- Additional dependent children
- Disability
- A change in the law
- Other significant change
Contact our law offices for a free consultation
To learn whether there has been a substantial change in circumstances in your case, contact our law offices by calling 401-823-6266 or filling out an online contact form. We offer free consultations where we can help you evaluate your situation, understand the law and decide whether or not to bring a motion to modify child support or child custody.
Parental relocation: when you want to move away with your child
No matter what the reason — a better job, moving closer to family, a change in environment — when a parent wants to relocate a significant distance away from the other parent, he or she must request permission with the court. Relocation impacts not only the children but also the other parent's rights to see the children. There may need to be dramatic changes to child custody and child support orders in order to make a move away possible.
Our family lawyers look at a variety of factors to determine whether a court is likely to grant a relocation request. Then, we assertively advocate for our client's interests in court. Contact us at our law offices in Warwick and Greenville today.