Family Law

Child support in Arkansas is calculated based on the payor's net income for child support purposes. Click here to see my page on child support calculations in general. Once we determine the payor's net income for child support purposes, that number is plugged into the current Arkansas child support [...]
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The first step in the child support calculation process is to determine the payor's gross income for child support purposes ("GICSP"). When the payor is simply an employee, GICSP is fairly easy to calculate and there's not much room for shenanigans. However, when the payor is a sole proprietor or [...]
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Once a payor's child support obligation has been set by court order or decree, it will remain at the ordered amount for the ordered length of time unless and until one of the parties files a motion to modify it. Modification of child support is permitted under Arkansas law when the gross income [...]
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Discovery is a catch-all term that describes the rights of the parties to a lawsuit to learn about the information their opponent has. The discovery phase of a lawsuit usually begins as soon as the lawsuit is filed, and lasts until the parties feel it is completed, or until a court-ordered cutoff [...]
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In Arkansas, as in most places, marriage is a contract that the parties can't agree to break themselves. Once you and your spouse agree to get married, you also agree that a circuit judge will have to be consulted in order to get out of it. In this way, marriage is unlike other contracts. For [...]
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