This topic is frequently confusing to anyone engaged in a child custody and visitation arrangement who doesn’t live together. The short answer is that once the court decides parentage, it will also order child support. From that point forward one of you will be required to pay child support to the other for the benefit of your son or daughter, and who pays depends on the incomes of both parents and other factors that are considered in the Child Support Worksheet under the Tennessee Child Support Guidelines... read more