Child Support

I currently pay child support for my 2 children from my first marriage. I am now remarried and my wife and I have two lovely children of our own. Will the Michigan Courts take this in consideration when I try to get my Child Support Payments lowered?

[ALawyer]

State courts generally do take changed circumstances into account.

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Not in Florida they don't. In Florida the courts view a "new family" as something that was acquired with the party knowing full well they had their other child support responsibility. Sorry, but it's true.

I'm not sure about Michigan's law. I am in Alabama and each time I have been in court regarding child support payments, the judge never took my new wife and our 2 children into consideration regarding the amount set for me to pay. They went strictly by MY income and my child's mother's income (not my new wife)to establish the amount of child support that I would pay. It really isn't fair, but that's the way it is here. Good luck to you.

In my state, Maine, if you are supporting a child from a new relationship/family, and you go back in for a modification, a theoretical order is made for your child/children and subtracted from your total income. However, if this results in a decrease in your support then this does not take place.