Spousal support guidelines?

[sasha1]

My lawyer says he doesn't have the program to calculate spousal support through the guidelines, but will get in touch with someone who does. He said that a while back, and I've heard nothing about it since. He's also been very busy with other cases, and when I do get in touch with him, there seems to be other issues pressing and his time is so limited (and expensive). Anyone know of any way at all that I can estimate what the guidelines might suggest?

[Divorcemanagement]

Ugh - you really do need software to do em up properly and the only software that I know is Childview. Depending where you live, if your community has a Family Law Information Centre attached to the courts, they may be able to do the numbers for you - they do that here in Alberta.

[Jenny]

I think divorcemate and supportmate are used a lot. It seems like if your lawyer has the info he/she needs they would be able to do the calculations fairly quickly. My lawyer was able to figure it out in my first meeting with her all within minutes while I was in her office. - Just a matter of plugging in the amounts. She was also able to figure out different scenarios.(different incomes with job changes etc)

Without child support it is easy because the amounts are based on gross income, but when child support comes into play then you have to use net income and it makes it harder to guesstimate. You can find the draft spousal guidelines here http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub...ect/index.html.

Jeff also talks about it here http://www.ottawadivorce.com/how-much-spousal.htm and here http://www.ottawadivorce.com/how-much-spousal-2.htm

[2hopefull]

this explains why my ex changed jobs at the beginning of the year to a lower paying job and why he wants more time all of a sudden. the discussions helped cleared up my confusion of his out of character stuff - ie. all of sudden wanting to know what's up with school, and medical appointments - I'm not kidding when many of the other parents thought I was a single parent all these years.

[logicalvelocity]

Sasha,

The formulas used to calculate spousal support according to the draft guidelines are located in the same document with examples.

The tax implications of ones respective province would come into the equation to calculate properly.

I'm not sure if you are familiar with MS excel, but one could easily make up a template spreadsheet implementing the guidelines formulas and one would just have to enter in the respective values of the payor.

Childview does have a demo.

http://www.childview.ca