What is earning capacity in child support?
What is earning capacity in child support?
A parent is able to make an estimate of income to be used in their child support assessment if their estimated income is 85% or less than their adjusted taxable income for the last relevant year of income.
What factors go into calculating child support?
How is child support determined?
- the child’s needs—including health insurance, education, day care, and special needs.
- the custodial parent’s income and needs.
- the paying parent’s ability to pay, and.
- the child’s standard of living before divorce or separation.
What are the reasons for a child support assessment?
The child support assessment is unfair because of the child’s income, earning capacity, property or financial resources Reason 5 ( 2.6.11 ). The child support assessment is unfair because the payer has paid or transferred money, goods or property to the child, the payee, or a third party for the benefit of the child
When to use significant income of child support?
Where the assessment covers a number of eligible children, the significant income of one child may be sufficient to establish the reason in respect of that child. It may be appropriate to reflect the income of the child by reducing the costs of that child used in the assessment, which will reduce the total child support payable.
How is child support calculated for Dependent Children?
The administrative child support formula already takes into account a parent’s responsibility to support their relevant dependent children ( 2.4.7) (i.e. the parent’s children by birth or adoption) by deducting a relevant dependent child amount from the parent’s income before calculating child support.
Why is child support necessary commitments of self-support?
Child support is intended to assist a payee to meet the recurring, day-to-day and often pressing expenses of maintaining a child. A child is not expected to have a relatively low standard of living in the short term in anticipation of a future increase in their standard of living.