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What to Expect from Child Custody Mediation in LA Child custody mediation is a mandatory process required before attending any scheduled hearing on child custody and visitation. Mandatory mediation may seem like an annoyance or even a burden, but the process is intended to prevent hardship rather than cause it. In many cases, parties wind up benefiting from mediation, and may even avoid unnecessary lengthy, expensive, and acrimonious court battles because…

In Louisiana, child support is guided by the statutes found in the Louisiana Child Support Guidelines. They take the gross amount of money that the family earns as a whole and the number of children and enter those figures into a table. The amount of child support is calculated when the numbers match up in the table. There are other factors that are taken into account, such as private school, sports…