Campbellton, TX Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

Sorry to hear about your upcoming loss of job. In order to seek a change in your child support obligation you must obtain a court order changing the support amount.  The court will not make that change until you have lost the job, and the court will want to see what unemployment benefits you may receive.  The best route is to hire an attorney now who will be able to file a pleading requesting child support modification as soon as you no longer have your full time job.  Your ex will need to be served and if she does not agree to the modification, you will need to have a hearing in front of the judge. The Attorney General of the State of Texas has a Child Support Division that employs attorneys to help establish and modify child support among other things.  You should contact the Office of the Attorney General first to see if they will help you. The support obligation will not be lowered to zero.  The minimum you will be required to pay will be based on minimum wage for a forty hour work week.  At least that is what the Tarrant County TX courts have been doing for unemployed persons.  If, however, you have some income from a part-time or side job, that will also be included in figuring support.  As mentioned above, if you receive unemployment compensation that will be included. If you do not file a suit with the court requesting that your support be modified and follow through with all the right legal steps and obtain a court order, your support obligation will continue to add up at the current rate.  You won't be able to fix it after the fact, so it is good that you are starting now to plan to deal with this.  

If you signed a prenuptial agreement and if it meets the requirements for the state of Utah, you are probably bound by its terms. The exception would be if your husband misrepresented his assets or otherwise defrauded you into signing it. His telling you that it was required might not meet the requirements to set the agreement aside, since you could easily have contacted an attorney to see if your husband's representations were correct. If your husband has put your name on the title to any properties, here or outside the U.S., that probably removes them from the terms of the prenuptial agreement. If so, those properties would be subject to being divided by the divorce court along with the rest of the marital property that has been acquired during the marriage.

Is South Carolina you can only get divorced for "cause". South Carolina does not have no-fault divorce. The grounds for divorce in South Carolina are: adultery, habitual drunkenness, physical cruelty, and one year's continuous separation or abandonment. Many people in SC will separate, wait for one year to pass, and then file for divorce based upon the separation.