This is Uncle Sam’s way of giving back to you. If you are the payor, and you pay for your spouse and children’s health insurance premiums at an added cost to you (thereby lowering your paycheck), inputting the amount you pay per month will generally lower your support payment. Thus, to properly and most fairly calculate the support you are to pay or receive, pay attention to these things. (The inverse if true if you are the recipient. If you are the payor, anything that increases your income (tax deductions, for example) will likely increase your support payment. (The inverse is true if you are the recipient). If you are the payor, anything that takes away from your income (health insurance, union dues, mandatory retirement), will likely decrease your support payment. Don’t know what deductions you claim? Union Dues? Mandatory retirement? If there is hardship? Again, the results will be imperfect. Don’t know your husband’s income? Then it will be impossible to calculate support. A support calculator only is as perfect as the data you put in. And it means, if you put in flawed input data, you will get flawed output data. This is a favorite phrase from the 80’s when computers were just getting chic. Here are some tricks of the trade, from your favorite divorce lawyer. There is a free child support calculator offered by the Department of Child Support Services. Even an hour of consult is better than none. If you are not a family law attorney, and don’t have a license to use this product, I highly recommend that you consult with an attorney ASAP. And now they charge us family law attorney annual subscriptions to use it! CFLR Owns the Rights to Dissomasterĭissomaster is a program owner by – a company which ingeniously came up with a plug-and-chug program which takes the child support formula codified in CA Family Code 4055. Incidentally, one of my former clients used to call it a Discomaster, which I prefer because it sounds much more fun. If you’re going through a divorce and there is support to be paid or received, you have heard of “Dissomaster”. Protecting Yourself From False Accusationsĭissomaster tricks to increase or decrease your support.

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