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Child Support in PA
Joe and his wife, Mary, were involved in an extremely contentious custody case. They were the parents of two children aged 15 and 17. Joe had virtually no custody of his kids and Mary had done everything under the sun to make the children hate their father. Joe could not see the children without Mary's permission; he could not obtain their school or medical records without asking Mary for copies, and he had no input with regard to where the children went to church. Joe could not even spend five minutes in a room with his kids because they hated the sight of his face ' thanks to Mary's alienation.
So Joe sat down with his attorneys and asked the first question that popped into his mind: Because he had no relationship with the children and no custodial time or involvement in their lives, and because they hated him, did he have to keep paying child support? The answer in Pennsylvania is: “Yes.”
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