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support is paid to the custodial parent by the non-custodial
parent for the benefit of the child. Child support
is most often calculated under the North
Carolina Child Support Guidelines. Four
adjustments can impact on the amount of child support owed by a
parent, namely: preexisting child support obligations and
responsibility for other children, payments for health insurance
premiums, work-related child care costs, and extraordinary
expenses for a child's medical bills, education, transportation,
etc. Work-related child care costs are deducted at a rate
of only 75%, thus taking into account the 25% federal tax credit
for child care. Finally, extraordinary expenses encompass out of
the ordinary medical, educational, and transportation expenses.
Child support may be modified upon a
showing of a substantial change of circumstances, such as a
significant increase or decrease in the income of the parties or
the reasonable needs of the child.
Generally, child support
terminates in North Carolina when a child reaches the age of
eighteen, unless the child is still in primary or secondary
school , in which case support payments shall continue until the
child graduates, otherwise ceases to attend school on a regular
basis, fails to make satisfactory academic progress towards
graduation, or reaches age 20, whichever comes first.
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