It seems that the media has given Charlie Sheen a bit of a break lately, but there have some recent developments. According to USA Today, Los Angeles Superior court judge Hank Goldberg, who is in charge of Sheen's child support proceedings, has ordered Warner Brothers to garnish the $55,000 per month child support payment from any payments due to the actor.

The order for garnishment was approved on Friday upon request by Brooke Mueller, who finalized her divorce from Sheen on May 2nd. That was around two months after Warner Brothers fired Sheen from the hit television show Two and a Half Men.

Since Warner Brothers fired Sheen from the television show, he has been embroiled in a legal battle over his contract with CBS.

Sheen and Mueller's child support agreement was intended to support the couple's twin sons, who are currently in the custody of Mueller. The order to remove the children from Sheen's custody came after Mueller obtained a restraining order against Sheen based on concerns over his sanity and his lifestyle.

According to fair-debt-collection.com, a website dedicated to informing debtors about fair debt collection laws, garnishing wages for the payment of child support may be done at a higher percentage than the normal garnishment rates for debtors. Whereas the maximum amount an employer may withhold from a person's weekly wages, after withholdings required by law, is the smallest of several discrete figures, child support garnishment is not limited to that rule.

A variety of factors are used to determine the amount of child support payments, primarily the income of both parents. Because garnishment is a common way to enforce an order for child support, it is important to ensure that the all the information used to determine a child support order is accurate, so that the agreement will be manageable for both parties. Child support orders, when they have become too burdensome, can be modified. Modifications can be tricky, though, and it is best to ensure an order is manageable from the start.

Source: USA Today, "Judge orders Sheen wages docked for child support," AP, 29 June 2011.