A child-support case involves monthly health-insurance premiums, unreimbursed therapy costs, and work-related day-care expenses. How are these expenses generally treated? The question tests allocation of medical and chil...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles
A court ordered Father to pay $1,600 per month in child support for two children. The order was based on Father's $88,000 salary and Mother's $52,000 salary. Eighteen months later, Father's plant closed. Father received...
Citations: State child-support modification principles, Federal child-support enforcement principles
A State A court entered a child-support order requiring Parent to pay $950 per month. At that time, Parent, Other Parent, and Child all lived in State A. Three years later, Other Parent and Child moved to State B. Parent...
Citations: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act
Parents sign an agreement stating that neither will ever owe child support because they want to avoid future court involvement. Later, one parent seeks support for the child. What is the likely effect of the agreement? T...
Citations: State child-support principles
State A entered a child-support order. Years later, the child and both parents have moved away from State A, and no one has consented to State A retaining modification jurisdiction. Which statement best describes modific...
Citations: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
...the judge believes a different amount may be appropriate because the child has unusual therapy expenses and one parent pays work-related child care. What best describes the guideline's effect? The question tests the leg...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles
Parent 1 and Parent 2 are divorcing and have one 10-year-old child. For the past six years, Parent 2 earned $145,000 per year as a hospital administrator. Three months before the support hearing, Parent 2 resigned and op...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles, Uniform family-law principles
...emain available locally. What is the court's best approach in setting child support? The question tests voluntary underemployment and income imputation. State child-support guideline principles
Citations: State child-support guideline principles
...ent is most accurate? The question tests timing and arrears limits in child-support modification. State child-support modification principles
Citations: State child-support modification principles
...ent now has a full-time job and a bank account balance of $4,800. The child received state medical assistance during part of the nonpayment period. The support agency seeks a judgment for arrears, income withholding, int...
Citations: Federal child-support enforcement principles, State contempt and support-enforcement principles
...ow. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests treatment of child-support arrears. State child-support enforcement principles, Federal child-support enforcement principles
Citations: State child-support enforcement principles, Federal child-support enforcement principles
An obligor with two children from a prior relationship remarries and has another child. The obligor asks to reduce support for the older children based on the new spouse's income and the new baby's expenses. Which statem...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles
...about the acknowledgment until eight months later. Mother later seeks child support from Spouse in the divorce case and from Bio Parent in a separate parentage proceeding. Spouse denies any duty to support Child because...
Citations: Uniform Parentage Act principles, State child-support principles
...ee includes a final property-equalization payment, $15,000 in accrued child-support arrears not subject to retroactive modification, and future monthly support subject to prospective modification. The obligor moves to St...
Citations: Full faith and credit principles, Judgment finality principles
...ercive civil-contempt sanction? The question tests contempt limits in child-support enforcement. State contempt principles, Federal due process principles for support enforcement
Citations: State contempt principles, Federal due process principles for support enforcement
...e statutory rescission period passes. One signer later wants to avoid support and claims uncertainty about biology. What is the most accurate statement? The question tests voluntary acknowledgment of parentage. Uniform P...
Citations: Uniform Parentage Act principles
...Rafael's life finding that Rafael was Nina's father, and Rafael paid child support under that order for several years. Rafael's brother argues that Nina cannot inherit because Rafael and Nina's mother were never married...
Citations: Uniform Probate Code parent-child relationship principles
...share in the other's estate, and that neither spouse would ever seek child support for any future child. Ten years later, Investor died. Investor's will left most assets to Investor's adult child from a prior relationsh...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Premarital Agreement Act section 6, Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10
...orary support, and ordered Spouse B to pay $1,500 per month in future child support. State D law permits prospective modification of future child support based on changed circumstances but does not permit retroactive mod...
Citations: U.S. Constitution Article IV, Section 1, 28 U.S.C. 1738, Judgment finality principles
...with the ability to pay support and communicate has no contact with a child and pays no support for three years, despite knowing where the child lives. A stepparent seeks adoption without that parent's consent. Which sta...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...neighborhood at twice the speed limit while texting. He did not see a child crossing the street and struck and killed the child. Which homicide offense is most directly supported if the conduct is reckless but not suffic...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 210.3
Mother and Father divorced when Child was two. The decree gave Mother sole legal and physical custody and gave Father supervised visitation. Father visited twice in the first year, then stopped visiting for three years...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
...le Spouse B left the workforce for ten years to care for the couple's children and manage the household. The business is now worth $600,000. Spouse B seeks an equitable share of the brokerage account, the home, and the b...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
...hout salary in the business for five years, then stayed home with the children. The business tripled in value. Fiancee has modest earning capacity and asks the court to divide marital property and award maintenance. Fian...
Citations: Uniform Premarital Agreement Act sections 2, 6, Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
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