Berner_Faith
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Child Support:
12. No child support will be made. The custodial parent shall cover expenses excluding s.7 costs
Section 7 Expenses
13. The parties shall contribute, in proportion to their respective incomes, any special or extraordinary expense for Child, as defined by Section 7 of the Child Support Guidelines. Any such expense shall be the
“net” expense after applying both the tax deduction benefit for child-care expenses, as well as the increase in National Child Benefit for the previous tax year, received by either party.
14. The party requesting the Section 7 expense reimbursement shall provide the other party with a copy of the original receipt(s) showing the full cost of the expense incurred and offer them the opportunity to pay their (agreed upon)
expense portion directly.
15. The parties agree that only expenses that total more than a $200 calendar month threshold shall be eligible to be deemed an s-7 special or extraordinary expense.
You are going to have issues with this section...
As has been stated, you cannot sign away the child's rights to CS... the offset method will apply and as far as I know, this document will not hold up in court with this sort of clause in there.
Furthermore, you state in #13 that, The parties shall contribute, in proportion to their respective incomes, how is this far? You have already stated you have an income of $0, which is suggesting that the other party be responsible for 100% of these costs.
Your best bet is to assume you will be imputed a wage of at least $20K and place an offset calculation into your offer. If the other parent makes say 40K a year, your clause should read somewhere along the lines of,
"The Applicant will pay the Respondent $160 per month in CS as per the Federal CS guidelines based on an income of $20,000 and the Respondent will pay the Applicant $360 per month in CS as per the Federal CS guidelines based on an income of $40,000. To simplify this process the Respondent shall pay the Applicant $200 per month."
Others will be able to offer better wording, but you have been told before you cannot have an income of $0, whether you pay taxes or not, whether you work for "gifts" or not, the point is, you cannot have an income of $0.