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Modifying Child Support One of the parents must request the change by a formal motion to the court. The court that makes the original child support award has the authority to modify the order if conditions change. Either parent may request the court to change the order throughout the time the child is under 18.

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, both parents are responsible for paying child support for their children whether or not they were ever married. Parents are obligated to pay child support until their child is 18 years old or is legally emancipated. However, there is an exception to this rule.

If payments are more than a year overdue and exceed $5,000, the delinquent parent could be sentenced to jail time.

No support order may be retroactively modified, but may be modified with respect to any period during which there is a pending petition for modification in any court, but only from the date that notice of such petition has been given to the responding party.

Some examples of material changes include: relocation of parent; inability by a parent to work together and cooperate with the other parent and effectively co-parent, a parent has remarried or had another child; the child's safety is in jeopardy with the custodial parent; a parent has violated the current order ...

You would have to petition the court for a modification. However, most courts believe that you knew you were responsible for the older child when you decided to have another child, and will not lower your support just for the fact that you fathered another child.