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A miscellaneous petition or complaint for custody is filed by submitting to the family clerk the following documents: the complaint for custody, a dr6, the family services counseling form, the summons, and the filing fee. If you cannot pay the filing fee, you should file for in forma pauperis status.

The law in R.I. states that Mother's child support shall be retroactive (shall reach back in time) to the date that Father was served with Mother's pleadings, so long as Mother's pleadings specifically asked for child support.

However, a "deadbeat" parent - that is, one who fails to pay the full amount of child support every month - can face significant fines and even jail time in some circumstances. A child support obligation continues as long as the child support order is in place or until the child reaches the age of majority.

Hear this out loud PauseIn Rhode Island, the nonresidential parent pays child support to the residential parent. When each parent has at least 49% of the parenting time, you qualify for a different child support amount.

Hear this out loud PauseNormally children aren't allow to refuse to visit a parent until they're legally adults (in Rhode Island, that's when they reach age 18 or are otherwise emancipated). Until then it's the custodial parent's responsibility to see to it that the child obeys the visitation orders.

Child support in Rhode Island ends at age 18, or until 90 days after the child graduates from high school, but not beyond the age of 19.