Coping With Unrealistic Imputed Income Amounts
The Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun, who reigned from 813 until 833, was famous for funding scientific activity, to the point that his capital city, Baghdad, was known as the scientific capital of the world, due to his patronage of mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. One of his court astronomers, Musa ibn Shakir, left a sizable inheritance to his sons Muhammad, Ahmad, and al-Hasan, and they put it to good use creating technological wonders. The Banu Musa, as the three brothers were known, built mechanical birds, which they installed in reception rooms in al-Ma’mun’s palace. The birds would seem to sing and flap their wings as visitors approached. They were only able to develop this technology by having books on mathematics and engineering translated into Arabic from Greek, so they bought these books from the Byzantine Empire and employed translators to work full time on translating them; they paid each translator a salary equivalent to $24,000 per month in 21st century money. You might be a nerd, but you are not on the payroll of a wealthy heir of an employee of one of the wealthiest rulers of all time, but based on the income the court has imputed to you for purposes of child support, it seems that your ex-spouse thinks you are and that she has persuaded the court of this. If the court has calculated your child support obligations based on an unrealistic assumption about your income, contact a Boca Raton child support lawyer.
In What Universe Does a Limousine Driver Earn $500 Per Day?
Not everyone has a predictable income like you get from a salaried job where your employment contract determines how much you get paid each month. If you work in retail or food service, you probably get paid by the hour; your schedule and number of hours vary slightly each week, and you never know when your employer might send you home early because business is slow. If you work in the gig economy, things are worse.
Being a limousine driver is one of the more lucrative gig economy jobs, but it is still a gig economy job. A divorced father earned a living as a limousine driver, as he had done during his marriage. For some reason, the court calculated his child support obligations based on an imputed income of $500 per day. That would mean that, if he worked five days per week, his monthly income would exceed $10,000.
The man’s ex-wife claimed that he was voluntarily underemployed in order to reduce his child support obligations. He disagreed, but he argued that, even if he did work less than five days every week, the court should impute a more reasonable income, or at least make findings based on his actual income and earnings.
Contact Schwartz | White About Getting a Child Support Calculation Rooted in Reality
A South Florida family law attorney can help you modify your child support order if it is unaffordable. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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