Lower Your Child Support

Want to lower your child support? Fair Price Lawyers can help.

Child support in Utah is set according to guidelines described in the Utah Child Support Act. Utah courts must follow these guidelines when making child support orders. Several factors go into determining how much child support must be ordered, including the incomes of the parties, the number of children, and the number of overnights each parent is entitled to have with the children each year.

Utah’s Office of Recovery Services (ORS) provides an online Child Support Calculator that will tell you what your child support obligation should be, pursuant to the guidelines. ORS is a Utah government agency that collects child support for parents.

In Utah, your child support may be lowered either through a motion or a petition. A motion is quicker and less costly, but a motion is not always an available option. If it has been more than three years since your child support order was issued or modified, then a motion can be filed, and the court will lower your child support obligation if there is a difference of 10% or more between the amount you should be paying and the amount currently ordered. You must also show that the difference is not temporary.

If your child support order was issued or already modified during the last three years, then a petition must be filed, and the court will lower your child support obligation if you can show that: a) there has been a substantial change in circumstances since the last child support order was issued, such as a change in the income of the parents or your custody of the children; b) the change results in a difference of 15% or more between the amount you should be paying and the amount currently ordered; and the change is not temporary.

If you want to lower your child support, call Fair Price Lawyers today at (801) 999-0104 and speak with a Utah child support attorney.

Fair Price Lawyers charges a $1,000 flat fee to do child support modifications via a motion and a $2000 flat fee for petitions. We pay the filing fee for petitions.

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