Sometimes for instance, for the self employed, people who earn tips or those who earn income through cash, our formal documents do not always provide a full picture of the gross annual income.
Your support calculations should be a reflection of all of our income. If a paying parent is not paying support based on their true, full income, the receiving parent may have to go to court and request that a judge review the actual income. A judge can set the income to a more realistic value (impute their income).
When imputing an income, a judge will declare that the paying parent actually has a higher earning capacity than what is stated. The judge will arrive at this conclusion based on the payor’s work history, past income, education, life style and job opportunities.
The Judge will then declare (impute) the amount of income that will be used for support calculations based on what the judge thinks that parent is actually earning or what they are capable of earning.
Family Lawyer Ajax, ON
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