Livingston County Divorce Attorney and Health Insurance

Illinois law calls for the parent paying support to also provide health insurance if it is available through his or her employer or on a group basis. A party who is ordered to provide health insurance for a child, but fails to do so, may be liable to the receiving parent for the unpaid premiums and the medical expenses incurred by the child that otherwise would have been covered by the insurance. Because the premium payments are considered to be a kind of child support, if the payments are not paid to the insurance carrier, the court may later order them paid to the custodial parent and will not be viewed as a windfall. For further information, contact your Livingston County Divorce Attorney or your Logan County Divorce Attorney.

Coles County Divorce Attorney and Daycare Expenses

Illinois law does not require, and the court may not require a parent paying child support to also pay for day care expenses. Nevertheless, many parents agree, without any legal authority, that they will share daycare expenses. Many judges get around the law's silence on daycare expenses by requiring non-custodial parents to pay larger amounts of child support large enough to cover daycare expenses. There is no clear cut answer. Appealate cases in Illinois are on both sides with some courts require that the non-custodial parents must pay day care expenses while other courts say the exact opposite. For further information, please visit your Coles County Divorce Attorney or your Edgar County Divorce Attorney.