Hi everybody. I told my wife of 15 years yesterday that I think it will better for both of us and our two kids if we are not married.
Anyway, I want at the bottom of my heart to share custody 50/50 and to let the kids continue to grow up in the same town with as little disruption as possible... but I fear that my wife will have none of it. So...
Thinking that we might be forced down the "normal" route of the kids living exclusively with her, full time, and having the courts decide how to distribute the household income, I'm trying to investigate what that distribution will look like.
I calculated the standard Child Support based on this table of simplified Ontario Child Support schedule. That's very straight forward.
Now I've also read in a number of places that Spousal Support is "more of an art than a science" but that a recent study shows that it normally aims to adjust the net household income to in our case 55% for the payee...
But what I can't figure out is whether that adjustment is after consideration of the Child Support. In other words, when I subtract the Child Support from my net monthly income and add it to her net monthly income, she's already at 65%...
I have a sinking feeling that Spousal Support is actually calculated without regard to Child Support. So in other words, if I want to calculate what I'll likely have left over each month, I should first adjust for Spousal Support, and the subtract the schedule amount for Child Support.
So my n00b question is: how are the two forms of support calculated?
Anyway, I want at the bottom of my heart to share custody 50/50 and to let the kids continue to grow up in the same town with as little disruption as possible... but I fear that my wife will have none of it. So...
Thinking that we might be forced down the "normal" route of the kids living exclusively with her, full time, and having the courts decide how to distribute the household income, I'm trying to investigate what that distribution will look like.
I calculated the standard Child Support based on this table of simplified Ontario Child Support schedule. That's very straight forward.
Now I've also read in a number of places that Spousal Support is "more of an art than a science" but that a recent study shows that it normally aims to adjust the net household income to in our case 55% for the payee...
But what I can't figure out is whether that adjustment is after consideration of the Child Support. In other words, when I subtract the Child Support from my net monthly income and add it to her net monthly income, she's already at 65%...
I have a sinking feeling that Spousal Support is actually calculated without regard to Child Support. So in other words, if I want to calculate what I'll likely have left over each month, I should first adjust for Spousal Support, and the subtract the schedule amount for Child Support.
So my n00b question is: how are the two forms of support calculated?
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