A recent case in family court in New York illustrates the need for child support agreements<\/a> to be made in writing and incorporated into a court order.<\/p>\n The divorced parties in the case, Kristina Lynn B. v. Joseph T.M., were parents of 10- and 12-year-old boys. In 2012, the mother withdrew her older son from a public school and sent him to a private school called the Christian Brothers Academy. The boy had emotional difficulties and had been subject to bullying at his school. The mother sought increased support for the higher tuition at the private school.<\/p>\n The mother admitted that she and the father had made an oral agreement that she would pay the full cost of tuition. However, Judge Duggan upheld a Support Magistrate’s earlier ruling by holding that the oral agreement did not absolve the father of responsibility for sharing in the tuition cost and in fact helped the mother’s (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent case in family court in New York illustrates the need for child support agreements to be made in writing and incorporated into a court order. The divorced parties in the case, Kristina Lynn B. v. Joseph T.M., were…<\/span><\/p>\n