Child support guidelines do not anticipate that the payee parent will make a dollar-for-dollar contribution to child support. The standards are based on the percentage of income and disposable assets that parents use to raise their children.
Having subsequent children does not give rise to modification of child support for first children as serial payor.
Military Separation benefit is gross income under HSS 80.
Trial court erred in finding percentage standards unfair due to inequality in available incomes.
Spouse is not a dependent under federal tax laws and her income should not be added to husband’s for child support.
Court did not misuse discretion by failing to use guidelines in modification case where payor was expending more than what the law might ordinarily require of a high income obligor.
Trial court erred in equal placement case by dividing difference between 25% of each parent’s income in half.
Undistributed income of grantor trust is available for child support.
Court properly considered father’s 30% placement time and second family in decision to deviate from guidelines.
In a case of a high-income payee, the percentage standards presumptively apply, absent payor’s showing of unfairness.