St. Louis Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

All parents are required to provide support for their minor children. After a divorce, this support will come in the form of a monetary payment to aid in providing for the child’s daily expenses and needs. At times, parents experience financial difficulties or other extenuating circumstances that can lead to late payments or prevent them from paying child support altogether. In response, the state of Oklahoma has numerous strategies in place to enforce child support orders and collect past due child support funds. This brief overview will outline what happens when an Oklahoma parent fails to pay child support. If

Although most people think of child support in terms of divorce, parenting agreements, and all the other considerations that come with family law, the fact is that every child is entitled to receive financial support from their parents. This presumption applies to all minor children, regardless of whether their parents remain in a married relationship, live together while unmarried, or are separated or divorced. Oklahoma Child Support Overview Child support is just one part of a parent’s responsibility to protect and provide for their children and is fulfilled by custodial parents when they provide food, shelter, education, clothing, and other