How to Use child support in a Sentence

child support

noun
  • The tester replied that the client had a felony from years ago for child support.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Offset is being taken to court over requests for child support for his 4-year-old daughter, Kalea.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Her state may be a community property state; her husband may have to pay maintenance and will surely have to pay child support.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, there's no reason to assume Michael's message has anything to do with the ongoing child support dispute.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Currently, a person's license can be suspended for reasons such as unpaid fines or falling behind on child support payments.
    Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2019
  • My stepson’s biological father is 20 months behind on child support.
    Meghan Leahy, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • My stepson's biological father is 20 months behind on child support.
    Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • It was then learned that the man, a Cleveland resident, was wanted on a Lorain County warrant for failure to pay child support.
    cleveland, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The Merritt campaign launched — and then took down after a week of criticism — an attack website including a false claim that said Hogsett failed to pay child support.
    Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2019
  • That private data, which included Social Security numbers of people who owed child support, were sent to the wrong addresses.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Howard currently serves as an assistant attorney general overseeing the statewide child support enforcement program.
    Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But most men can be sued in a court of law for child support.
    Glamour, 13 May 2022
  • Nearly a year ago Thomas asked for a loan of $1,000 to catch up on child support.
    Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
  • Rachel filed for child support when their son was six months old.
    Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • At this time, no child support agreement has been put in place.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
  • She was ordered to pay him child support, court records show.
    Daniella Silva, NBC News, 17 June 2022
  • The amount of child support agreed upon was redacted from the court filing.
    Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The feds wanted to make sure the child support payments kept flowing.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • What about the rights of men who claim they’re being squeezed by women for child support?
    Zoe Beaty, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • As part of that, the Oscar winner has been ordered to pay him $8,000 a month in child support.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Porter and Combs broke up in 1999 and battled in court over child support for Christian.
    Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But that happens rarely, and usually if the child support seems to be skewed.
    Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Berry has also agreed to pay Martinez $8,000 a month in child support.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Details around spousal and child support take months and sometimes years to get ironed out.
    Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The child’s mother is entitled to child support from your son and should seek it.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Tom Wolf lived in a home in Daly City with his wife and two children and worked as a child support officer for the city.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Those are asked so that the state can go after the dads for child support — most of which the government then pockets.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The only things the couple will need to work out in court, The Blast reported, is child custody and child support.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 5 Sep. 2023
  • By the time Unique had moved away from Richmond, the father of her sons owed her thousands of dollars in child support.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The story lacks the moral outrage of a father who refuses to pay child support.
    Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024

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