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Family

Feb. 27, 2020

Kanye may know a thing or two about child support

You hear it all the time: “She’s a gold digger.” “He’s a scrub.” “They’re just living off the child support to fund his/her lifestyle.” Of course this is not always the case, nor is it the purpose of child support.

Jacqueline Combs

Associate
Blank Rome LLP

Jacqueline is a former corporate counsel. She has advised her clients on a wide range of legal issues, including drafting and managing corporate contracts, merger and acquisition due diligence and integration, financial and insurance regulatory matters, and business risk assessment. Since practicing family law exclusively, Jacqueline has integrated her experience as a prior corporate counsel into the intricacies involved in resolving all aspects of family law disputes, including high-asset and high-income dissolution matters, premarital and postnuptial agreements, and high-conflict custody cases.

You hear it all the time: "She's a gold digger." "He's a scrub." "They're just living off the child support to fund his/her lifestyle." Of course this is not always the case, nor is it the purpose of child support. There are, however, circumstances where you see child support being used for things other than its intent (as Kanye noted in his song "Gold Digger"), which is something you may want to consider before contemplating a child with your partner... or contemplat...

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