Maintenance payments in Santiago de Veraguas: prepare for your consultation
Preparation varies depending on whether you seek to establish maintenance payments, modify existing payments or address a failure to pay. Start by identifying your situation.
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Prepare identification, certificates establishing the family relationship and an organized account of needs and expenses, with the available supporting documents. Include information you lawfully know about income and financial means.
There is no amount we can promise based on a single question or a generic percentage. The consultation allows us to review the relevant information and what still needs to be documented.
If you want to modify maintenance payments
Bring the existing decision or agreement and explain what has changed since then. Organize documents that allow the previous situation to be compared with the current one: expenses, education, health, employment or income, as applicable.
Identify the dates and avoid mixing a request for a change with the record of overdue payments. These are different questions that should each be raised with their own documents.
If payments are outstanding
Prepare a statement for each period of what was established, what was paid and what you consider outstanding. Attach complete payment records and relevant communications. Separate documented facts from amounts that still need to be verified.
If you received a recent summons or decision, bring the complete document and the date of receipt. Do not wait to finish assembling the entire file before seeking guidance about an approaching date.
Guidance in Santiago de Veraguas
You can consult at the firm’s office in Santiago or request initial guidance remotely. You can also request information from the Judiciary about requirements and filing; certain maintenance proceedings can be initiated without a lawyer.
The competent authority must be verified according to the people involved, their domicile and the stage of the matter. Law 42 has been amended, including on jurisdiction; an old list of courts should not be applied without review.
For your consultation, have the following ready
- Identification and relevant family certificates.
- A statement of expenses and available financial information.
- The decision, agreement, case number and summonses, if any.
- Payment records and a statement for each period if there has been a failure to pay.
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We meet with clients at Calle 3a, Santiago de Veraguas, and arrange remote consultations. Tell us what you need to resolve and which documents you have available.
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