I posted a thread entitled 'Our Saga Part One' the other day. This post relates to this thread.
We're trying to determine a reasonable amount to ask the judge to impute and would like to get some opinions. Here's a little more back-story.
- The ex is an owner-operator long haul truck driver; he owns 3 trucks.
- He sent his new wife to truck driver school and she then started her own company which also owns 3 trucks.
- He paid one of his drivers a salary of $58k (based on discussions with other drivers, this is a pretty reasonable salary, certainly not excessive)
- He paid his wife a salary of $18k
- He claims a personal income of $1
- He claims a self-employment income of $1
We were initially going to ask the court to impute his income to that of his top driver ($58k), which is a reasonable income for that job with his level of experience. Like his driver, he works full time on the road and has a set 'run', and his current wife drives only with him, never her own trucks. Would it be reasonable to ask the court to impute the salary he pays her as well? As an owner operator, we can reasonably assume he makes more than any of his employees and our attorney put his income between $60k-$90k. Keep in mind he worked this 'run' on his own before she became trained as a truck driver and he technically does not NEED a second driver to receive the income this run provides. It irks us that he puts additional trucks into her name/company, which produces income that can't be used in CS calculations, and to top it all off he pays her an income to drive his truck with him.
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We're trying to determine a reasonable amount to ask the judge to impute and would like to get some opinions. Here's a little more back-story.
- The ex is an owner-operator long haul truck driver; he owns 3 trucks.
- He sent his new wife to truck driver school and she then started her own company which also owns 3 trucks.
- He paid one of his drivers a salary of $58k (based on discussions with other drivers, this is a pretty reasonable salary, certainly not excessive)
- He paid his wife a salary of $18k
- He claims a personal income of $1
- He claims a self-employment income of $1
We were initially going to ask the court to impute his income to that of his top driver ($58k), which is a reasonable income for that job with his level of experience. Like his driver, he works full time on the road and has a set 'run', and his current wife drives only with him, never her own trucks. Would it be reasonable to ask the court to impute the salary he pays her as well? As an owner operator, we can reasonably assume he makes more than any of his employees and our attorney put his income between $60k-$90k. Keep in mind he worked this 'run' on his own before she became trained as a truck driver and he technically does not NEED a second driver to receive the income this run provides. It irks us that he puts additional trucks into her name/company, which produces income that can't be used in CS calculations, and to top it all off he pays her an income to drive his truck with him.
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