caregiver costs
The amount of child support can be increased significantly by the cost of child (day) care costs, related to employment, education or training for employment.
The default allocation of the cost of childcare, is to attribute half of the cost of the child care to the parent paying support. However, a case has held that a trial court has discretion in allocating these costs. For example the court might allocate a greater portion of daycare costs to an employed parent, than to a disabled parent.
Parties typically share equally the cost of reasonable uninsured health care expenses. This will include the cost of co-payments, and procedures which health, dental or vision insurance does not cover. Note the use of the word "reasonable”. A court may conceivably find that not all uninsured medical expenses are reasonable.
This child, spousal and parental (yes, parental) support page is about the duty to pay support for a parent, child, or spouse, and how support is calculated in the State of California. Support may be garnished from wages, and ordered payable to a county officer. Child support is paid for the support of a biological or adopted child, while spousal support, is paid to a spouse, or former spouse. Parental support is a duty adult children may have, to the extent of their ability, to support a parent who is unable to support himself or herself through work.
child support
Both parents have the duty to support their children until they reach majority, or in some cases until the age of nineteen. A statewide guideline in terms of which child support is calculated is codified in Family Code Section 4055. Various software applications are available, which generate a sum using the formula.
calculating child support
To a large extent, support depends on the net monthly disposable income of the higher earner, the time that the children spend with the higher earner, and the number of children involved. The determination of child support in the State of California is done pursuant to a state wide uniform guideline, which is codified in FC 4055. Calculating support manually is time consuming, and courts typically use an application known as SupporTax or Dissomaster. The Family Code provides a presumption that the results obtained by using the formula are correct.
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