Child Support in Florida - What is the Fight About? (Part 2)

In part one, I briefly outlined under section 61.30, Florida Statutes, which is calculated on such allowances. Let's take a look at two cases in which parents may disagree with the amount of maintenance payments made against one of them.

So, why do people fight about the amount of child support if the formula provided?

It boils down to money and time. In particular, what is as the income of a party, and how much time a parent shares with theChild. When it comes to income, the parents can not agree what should be included or not. For example, if you are a W-2 employee, you may think that your income can easily be on your W-2 form provides. But what if you get bonuses? Should the income be included? Inclusion (or exclusion) of premiums as income is, which parties could fight on in this (very small) example.

For parents who own a business, is the potential for disagreement about what is the income normallylarger. Sometimes a company may for certain personal expenses of a party to pay, and it could be argued that the parents' income, for which the company pays these costs.

When it comes to time-sharing, the basic child benefit calculated under the Guidelines, a built-in assumption: it assumes that the party will pay child has to share less than forty percent of overnights with the child. All other factors are equal, will assist the child to the amount due from a parent, if the variousParents spend at least forty percent (40%) of nights spent with a child. Additional calculations are needed to assist the child to the duty of parents, the shares reached their children more time for forty percent or more of nights.

Now that the conditions of custody and visitation Florida eliminated, the child support guidelines could be on their list for the next revision. It makes sense to be a better way to find the "time is a lot of money" factor present in theGuidelines. Here, the parties would have one less thing for them to work by focusing on the best interests of their children when it comes to a time-sharing plan for keeping them.