Child Support Wilmington, NC

North Carolina's child support standards apply as a "rebuttable assumption" in all legal process entailing the support responsibility of a parent. The standards do not apply to child assistance orders entered versus stepparents or various other individuals or agencies who are secondarily liable for child support. 

If a child's parents have performed a legitimate, unincorporated separation arrangement that determines a moms and dad's child support responsibilities and an action for child assistance is ultimately brought versus the moms and dads, the court has to base the parent support responsibility on the amount of assistance offered under the separation arrangement instead of the quantity of assistance payable under the child support guidelines unless the court figures out, by the higher weight of the evidence in regards to the child's requirements and the aspects specified in the initial sentence of G.S. 50-13.4(c), that the quantity of support under the initial agreement of the separation is unreasonable.

The guidelines should be made use of when the court enters a short-term or permanent child support order in a non-contested situation or a contested hearing.