Hi, I'm new here. I'm wondering, where the payor is self-employed and his line 150 is calculated after he has deducted business expenses, is there a standard way to determine his total income for the purposes of child support?
I know that 'hard' and 'soft' expenses are considered differently for the purposes of determining child support, and that 'soft' expenses may be added back in. I feel that many of his deductions either give him significant personal benefit, or are not legitimate business expenses.
I really dont want to take this through a court process if we can negotiate something otherwise. He is suggesting we just go with his line 150, or come up with some random number to add to it. My position is that I have no idea what his actual total income is, nor do I know what his real business expenses are, so I have no idea how we would manage to do this. I also think that in future years he will be less honest with me about what he deducted and what was legit/not so legit, so I have no idea how we would do this moving forward.
I understand that the court can analyze expenses (is this an extremely tedious process, and could we have it done independently?), or they can impute an income to the payor. I will go this route if necessary, but it is going to lead to a ton of hostility and I would like to avoid that if at all possible.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I know that 'hard' and 'soft' expenses are considered differently for the purposes of determining child support, and that 'soft' expenses may be added back in. I feel that many of his deductions either give him significant personal benefit, or are not legitimate business expenses.
I really dont want to take this through a court process if we can negotiate something otherwise. He is suggesting we just go with his line 150, or come up with some random number to add to it. My position is that I have no idea what his actual total income is, nor do I know what his real business expenses are, so I have no idea how we would manage to do this. I also think that in future years he will be less honest with me about what he deducted and what was legit/not so legit, so I have no idea how we would do this moving forward.
I understand that the court can analyze expenses (is this an extremely tedious process, and could we have it done independently?), or they can impute an income to the payor. I will go this route if necessary, but it is going to lead to a ton of hostility and I would like to avoid that if at all possible.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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