CHILD SUPPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does child support mean? 

• CHILD SUPPORT (noun)
  The noun CHILD SUPPORT has 1 sense:

1. court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated

  Familiarity information: CHILD SUPPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILD SUPPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("child support" is a kind of...):

support payment (a payment made by one person for the support of another)

 Context examples 

This house also rules money that you pay out, for example, due to a court settlement, child support, or other previously made financial promises.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you are trying to divide property in a divorce or receive back child support in 2020, you are likely to be successful.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What made matters worse is that my friend is a single mother with no child support, and her son was due to attend college that fall.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may be paying back child support or a contractor for a home renovation or repair—you get the idea.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Or you may have to pay up on a court or divorce settlement, back child support, a student loan, or credit card.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The eighth house rules venture capital, commissions, bonuses, licensing fees, royalties, insurance payouts, bank loans, lines of credit, inheritances, mortgages, child support, scholarships and university student aid, and other such money that comes to you outside of salary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Additionally, you may have had an unwanted shock regarding finances. (Uranus rules your eighth house of other people’s money.) The funds you were thinking about might have concerned one of the following: venture capital, commissions, royalties, child support, alimony, student loans, inheritance, insurance claims, or a court case settlement.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)