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Kansas Child Support When a Parent Owns a Business: Cash Flow, Add-Backs, Retained Earnings, and Proof
A business owner's child-support income may be harder to identify than a salaried employee's wages. Tax returns, payroll, distributions, retained cash, debt payments, and personal expenses can tell different stories about what the business earned and what the parent actually controlled. The objective is not to punish ownership or accept the tax return without review. A reliable calculation reconciles company books to tax filings and personal cash flow, distinguishes legitimate operations from discretionary choices, and avoids counting the same dollar twice. The Kansas Child Support Guidelines govern income determination and adjustments. Business revenue is not automatically personal income, while tax-return
Dividing a Professional Practice in a Kansas Divorce: Goodwill, Valuation, and Income
A medical, dental, legal, accounting, or consulting practice can be both an income source and a property interest. In a Kansas divorce, the difficult work is not simply deciding who keeps the practice. The parties may dispute what is transferable, how much value depends on one professional's future labor, and whether the same cash flow is being used for property and support. Kansas law expressly recognizes professional goodwill as marital property only to the extent it is marketable for the particular professional. That statutory limitation makes evidence about buyers, contracts, referral patterns, workforce, branding, location, and post-sale restrictions more useful
Kansas Nonparent Visitation Law: What Grandparents Should Know About the Uniform Nonparent Visitation Act
Kansas changed its approach to nonparent visitation in 2024 by repealing the former grandparent-visitation statutes and adopting the Uniform Nonparent Visitation Act. The current law applies to more than a family title. A grandparent seeking court-ordered contact must satisfy specific statutory requirements, overcome the presumption favoring a fit parent’s decision, and show that the requested schedule serves the child’s best interests. The new framework matters because older Kansas articles may describe a different legal test. Kansas Statutes Annotated sections 23-3305 through 23-3324 now govern these cases. The Act does not allow a court to order visitation simply because a grandparent
Moving With a Child Without Required Notice in Kansas
Moving with a child across town, across Kansas, or into another state can change school transportation, weekday parenting time, extracurricular activities, and the cost of maintaining contact with both parents. Kansas law does not require every parent to obtain advance court permission before changing a child’s residence, but it imposes written notice requirements in many cases. Failing to follow them can create legal and practical problems even when the move is motivated by work, housing, or family support. Kansas Statutes Annotated section 23-3222 generally requires a parent who has legal custody, residency, or parenting time rights to give the other
Relocation Cases and Child Custody in Kansas
Kansas relocation cases often require a practical schedule redesign. If weekday parenting time becomes impossible, the parents may need to consider longer blocks during school breaks, revised holiday rotations, shared transportation duties, and reliable remote communication. A plan that accounts for these details can be more persuasive than a general request to approve or block the move. Kansas relocation cases often begin as a practical parenting problem. A new job, family support, military service, remarriage, or housing change may make a move appealing, but the move can also change school transportation, weekday parenting time, sports schedules, and holiday plans. Parents
Hidden Assets in Kansas Divorce: What to Do If Your Spouse Is Hiding Money
Dividing property in a Kansas divorce depends on full and accurate financial disclosure from both spouses. Courts rely on this transparency to ensure that marital property is divided fairly under Kansas law. When one spouse attempts to hide assets, it can disrupt that process and lead to an outcome that does not reflect the true financial picture of the marriage. Hidden assets are more common than many people realize. In some cases, they involve obvious omissions such as undisclosed bank accounts. In others, they involve more subtle tactics like delaying income or shifting ownership of property. Regardless of the method,
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