Even if you've managed to avoid having a difficult custody battle, things can still get ugly after your divorce. Believe it or not, child support is often the worst struggle. We hear it every day: "My ex isn't
making the child support payments that the judge ordered." It doesn't seem like rocket science. If someone has a child, you would hope they would want to support their child, and help the primary caregiver. Regardless of what someone wants or doesn't want to do, not paying child support is a violation of law. We think to ourselves: We can't make someone do something they don't want to. But with legal support you can, and you will.

Child Support Guidelines:
Legally, child support is a simple formula based on the amount of time a parent spends with their child, and the amount of money a parent is earning. Since 1989, each state has adopted a set of child support guidelines. They are rules for child support that a non-custodial parent (the non-primary caregiver) must follow.

Pennsylvania Guidelines:
231 is the code rule for child support guidelines in Pennsylvania. If the non-custodial parent is spending more than 40% of time with their child, that parent will always be paying less than the non-custodial parent (who is spending less than 40% of time with their child).

Let's say a mother is the primary caregiver of two children, and her monthly income is $2,000. The father's monthly income is $3,000. The basic amount of money that should be given to the mother by the father would be $1,369. The father should be supporting the mother with $821 per month.