{"id":1869,"date":"2021-01-13T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:24:53","slug":"meaning-of-multiple-households-for-purposes-of-calculating-texas-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/meaning-of-multiple-households-for-purposes-of-calculating-texas-child-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of &#8220;Multiple Households&#8221; for Purposes of Calculating Texas Child Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1896 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-1175949984.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-1175949984\" width=\"724\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-1175949984.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-1175949984-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-1175949984-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/>Courts often keep siblings together; however, in some Texas child custody cases, it is in the children\u2019s best interest for them to be split up. When one or more children live with one parent and one or more children live with the other parent, each parent may be obligated to pay child support to the other.\u00a0 A father recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/twelfth-court-of-appeals\/2020-12-19-00395-cv.pdf?ts=1608211039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> how the court calculated the child support the mother would have to pay him after he received custody of one of their four children. In issuing its ruling, the appellate court&#8217;s opinion turned on the definition of &#8220;multiple households&#8221; under the Texas Family Code.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/meaning-of-multiple-households-for-purposes-of-calculating-texas-child-support\/#more-1869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts often keep siblings together; however, in some Texas child custody cases, it is in the children\u2019s best interest for them to be split up. When one or more children live with one parent and one or more children live with the other parent, each parent may be obligated to pay child support to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16,258],"tags":[88,63,81],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-custody","category-child-support","category-modification","tag-child-custody","tag-child-support","tag-modification"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meaning of &quot;Multiple Households&quot; for Purposes of Calculating Texas Child Support &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; January 13, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Courts often keep siblings together; however, in some Texas child custody cases, it is in the children\u2019s best interest for them to be split up. 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