It is recommended that you talk to your lawyer before dropping any child support. Your lawyer will be able to talk you through all of your options and work out what is the best option for you. When making your decision, think about the needs of the child before your own. Your child is the most important person in the situation and their needs should be the priority. You should also think about the future and how any decisions made now will affect your child into their early adulthood.
It is possible to drop child support. Any agreement between the two parties, usually the parents, takes precedence over what the court may have previously ordered, except in the cases of Medicaid, welfare, etc, where the courts want a responsible party to pay when they can, rather than taxpayers. You would have to make an agreement for no-child support and have your current order amended to reflect that.
Unless the parent, who is not paying child support relinquishes their parental rights to the child, they can always go back to court and ask for a modification of the current custody order. Child support (or lack thereof) does not give the parent who pays it the right to see their child. The parent who does not have custody of the child does have a constitutional right to see their child, irrespective of child support. Only a custody agreement where they agree to ‘no custody’ of the child or their formally relinquishing parental rights will eliminate their rights as a parent.
Know that, in all likelihood, no matter which course of action you take, once you agree to not accept child support should something change down the road, you will not likely get child support ‘retroactively’ to the previous agreement.
It is possible to drop child support. Any agreement between the two parties, usually the parents, takes precedence over what the court may have previously ordered, except in the cases of Medicaid, welfare, etc, where the courts want a responsible party to pay when they can, rather than taxpayers. You would have to make an agreement for no-child support and have your current order amended to reflect that.
Unless the parent, who is not paying child support relinquishes their parental rights to the child, they can always go back to court and ask for a modification of the current custody order. Child support (or lack thereof) does not give the parent who pays it the right to see their child. The parent who does not have custody of the child does have a constitutional right to see their child, irrespective of child support. Only a custody agreement where they agree to ‘no custody’ of the child or their formally relinquishing parental rights will eliminate their rights as a parent.
Know that, in all likelihood, no matter which course of action you take, once you agree to not accept child support should something change down the road, you will not likely get child support ‘retroactively’ to the previous agreement.