Yes. Having a new family or new financial obligations are not valid excuses to stop paying the full amount of child support to the children from a previous relationship. If your new financial obligations mean that you or any of your children would suffer undue financial hardship, you must provide evidence of this to the judge. Undue financial hardship can occur when the parent: has an unusually high level of family debt incurred before the separation incurs high expenses in spending parenting time with the child (such as travel) has to support other people. Last updated: March 2021