Child Support
For nearly two decades Stacy has provided professional mediation services from real estate/ property matters to family matters. Stacy knows how to keep you out of court, offering a fresh approach, and a new way to look at reconciliation, separation, and divorce. Mediation is more than just an affordable option, It puts your families first, something a Court will not do. Stacy has greater than a 95% settlement rate!
For those spouses who are not in the same location with each other or the mediators, Stacey offers cutting edge, secure, online mediation.
Texas Child Support Mediation
Why mediate child support?
Texas's child support guidelines are minimum standard of financial support of children. Texas child support guidelines apply universally, as if all families and children are the same. Parents can agree to a different amount of child support than the Texas guidelines provide.
Many parents we see do not believe it is appropriate to provide only minimum child support for the care and needs of their children. Frequently the children’s basic needs legitimately exceed the Texas child support guideline amount.
Parents calculate more accurate child support in mediation based on the child's actual needs, the time the child spends with each parent, and the parent's ability to pay. More often now, they agree there will be no child support.
Benefits of Child Support Mediation
Calculate the child support amount that works for the child and the parents
Decide which parent will provide child's medical/dental support/health insurance
Divide responsibility for payment of uncovered/uninsured expenses
Determine each parent's income, ability, and willingness to share in child's support
Avoid future conflict by agreeing what child support does and does not cover
Parents are often unaware they can make an agreement that no child support will be paid. Parents are making that choice in mediation when they have similar incomes, share contributions for extracurricular activities, daycare, and education, and the children spend close to equal time in each household.
Stacy helps parents look carefully at the actual expenses of the child, the child's living arrangements, parenting plan and any special needs, and the parent's income and ability to cover those needs to determine the amount of child support that works. Stacy can help negotiate child support before and after divorce.
Stacy Specializes In Helping Married, Never Married, Divorced Couples & Parents:
Successfully transition from marriage to co-parenting children
Communicate better
Stop arguing
Negotiate sensible agreements at a reasonable cost
Avoid expensive "win/lose" court battles
Discreetly end a relationship
Privately deal with an addiction
Create a separation agreement