NDI is net discretionary income. "Discretionary" usually means what you have left over after necessities in your budget. Discretionary income in this case means the amount after deducting your payments of support. Paying extraordinary expenses at NDI would mean that you subtract the child support payments of the payer and add them to the receiver and then figure out the proportion of expenses each pays. That isn't an automatic deal.
"Gross salary" is what you earn before you make any support payments. The term usually refers to line 150 on the tax return, before any personal deductions are claimed. Usually the special expenses would be split according to this.
"Custody" in Ontario means decision making but the term sometimes is also used to mean where the child lives, like in the income tax help guide they refer to shared and split custody. This gets confusing.
Decision making has nothing to do with child support. The child support is calculated according to how much each parents earns. If the child lives within the range of 60/40 with each parent, it's considered 50/50 and each parent is calculated to pay the other parent. The amount paid is the difference between what you would pay and what your ex would pay.
Last edited by Mess; 11-27-2009 at 09:40 AM.
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