CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Agreements Limiting Child Support
8 Cards On This Topic:
  • The right to child support may not be waived or limited in a premarital agreement.
  • In determining child support, court may consider child's income only if parents unable to provide basic needs.
  • A court order modifying c/s retroactive to any time period before the filing date of a modification motion violates the Family Code.
  • MSA provision that child support be determined by laws of another state is unenforceable in CA as it might tend to limit the child support obligation.
  • Courts will not respect agreements that have the effect of contracting away the child's right to support.
  • Although W may not bargain away Cs' right to support, an agreement between H and W waiving support for one year could be binding between them.
  • Agreements limiting support.
  • Waivers of attorney fees invalid in child support cases.