Can a corporation be required to pay child support?

Question

Can an owner's corporation become liable to pay child support.

Answer 1

If the corporation is not paying out a normal salary/dividend and by doing so makes the owner unable to pay child support the corporation can be forced to increase salary/dividends which can be seized to pay child support.

This however has nothing to do with corporate law but with family law (one might not make himself deliberately unable to pay child support).

A corporation can be held "hostage" for the debts of its shareholders. Debtholders might seek the sale of the shares, force the corporation to increase salaries or dividends, ...

Answer 2

The corporation itself cannot be held liable for child support payments, UNLESS the corporation was witholding payments for one of it's employees & failed to remit the withheld payments.  Now the owners of the corporation can be held liable for their own child support & with the mere fact that they own a corp, the companies profits can be used as a factor in determining how much support that owner will pay.  But the owner will be held liable for it, not the company.  I hope that all made sense.

Answer 3

Very unlikely.  That's why it's a corporation, to protect it's owners from liability.  Now if the owner is using the corporations funds for his own personal spending or if the paperwork is not all in order, then he can be liable.  I'm not an expert though, so find some professional advice.