The Detroit News has this report, Michigan child support pleas flood courts.
A snippet:
Parents pinched by the recession are flooding courts across the state with requests for reductions in child support payments.
In Wayne County, requests for payment adjustments have doubled. Courts there and across southeast Michigan are prioritizing such cases to expedite relief to strapped payers, [...]

This post is for my readers in and near Milan, Mich.
Milan Free Methodist Church, 950 Arkona Rd., Milan, Mich., will host a Single Moms Pampering Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday Oct. 24.
This is a free event but registration is required in advance at the church office, (734) 439-2414.
Moms will be invited to [...]

This post is for my southeast Michigan readers:
The Sisters Acquiring Financial Empowerment Health and Wealth Expo will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday October 24 at the Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers St., Detroit, Michigan 48235.
Admission is free and open to the public. Lunch also will be provided at no charge.
There will [...]

The Factoidz site has a great post on How to save money when cooking for two people. I liked the article since it’s just me and my husband home these days – one of my friends liked it because she’s a single mom with one son at home.
My two-person tricks include:

Buy meat in portions that [...]

A divorce decree doesn’t mean the end of financial matters with the ex-spouse.
CreditCards.com has this report from Sally Herigstad: When your ex doesn’t pay on joint account.

This post is for my Michigan readers:
One of the family law provisions I dislike in the Michigan court system is a clause in many divorce decrees specifying that custodial parents who move more than 100 miles away from the other parent – or depending on the wording, out of state – have to meet with [...]

If you have a financially dependent student (typically the young adult 18-24) in the family who is the child of divorced or never-married parents, there are a lot of  complications that can result when filing for college financial aid.
It can be just a complicated of a situation when the child is younger and a family [...]

One of the search phrases that people have been using lately when they land on the Monroe on a Budget blog involves child support being late because of the Chrysler layoff.
It really doesn’t matter whether a layoff happened because of the Chrysler factory shutdown, the Monroe or Toledo or Detroit city department budget cuts, any [...]

I rescued this question out of my spam quarantine. My hunch is that it went into the spam queue because of a link … but this was a good question by itself, so I am rescuing it:
Any idea if there are similar blogs like this related to financial help for single moms?…
Well, yes and no.
There [...]

USA Today had this report earlier this week: Recession can hit hard in families headed by women.
A snippet:
Women who are married and lose their jobs may be able to drop out of the labor force and wait for the economy to improve, living on their husbands’ income. In that case, a woman is not considered [...]