child support
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈtʃaɪld səˈpɔrt/
:
pensión alimenticia
- In his experience, the noncustodial parents "simply don't understand the legal process to modify their child support obligations."
- child support payments
- pay child support
- custody and child support
On Monday, I won't be able to pay my child support.
- On Monday, I won't be able to pay my child support.
- His case is out of Houston, TX and the mother of their child receives child support based on the cap.
- Further, there's information here that if you have your stimulus check taken because of back child support payments, that can no longer happen.
- We're still going through the court system now for child support custody stuff.
- And then you got to pay him and then he wants child support.
- This is your daughter Vanessa, and you need to pay like child support.
- That's child support shouldn't even exist.
- One time my dad, well, my mom was trying to put my dad on child support.
- Please try to watch it if you get a chance because I have, you know, child support payments, stuff like that.
- I mean, yeah, she can just go and go around, have a couple kids, get a couple child support.
Examples
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South Carolina incarcerated Michael Turner four separate times for failure to pay child support.
Academic text (2017) -
The judge ordered him to pay child support every month to help with his children's living expenses.
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But within two weeks of his release, he was brought in for failure to pay child support.
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And the enforcement of child support is relatively poor in this country.
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In addition, we need to get far more serious about child support enforcement.
Academic text (1996) -
More fundamentally, a delay in child support cases means a delay in families receiving support.
Academic text (2017) -
Each year, states initiate thousands of civil contempt actions to enforce child support orders.
Academic text (2017) -
First off, the, the, the court adjudicated this divorce and they made a custody ruling and a child support ruling, Correct.
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Why, half this petition concerns itself with custody, visitation, child support and schooling.
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There is, however, a pragmatic reason for linking child support to visitation and custody.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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4.4
Money paid to an ex-partner or children to help support them after a divorce
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3.5
A regular payment one person gives to help pay for a child or former partner
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'money to help cover living expenses for the children' follows directly from combining 'child' (a minor) with 'support' (financial or material help), so the core idea is compositional and predictable. This construction is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will grasp the basic financial/help sense (though legal/court-enforcement details may require extra exposure).
Etymology
The term child support comes from the simple image of a child who needs care and the word support meaning to give money or help. So, when parents split, a court can order one parent to pay money 'to support' the child, and that is why the phrase means payments to help a child's living costs.