How is child support calculated when the custodial parent is voluntarily unemployed. I’m not implying that it’s for child support reasons, but my question is how would child support be accurately measured if Non custodial parent is employed and custodial parent is not and they choose to be a stay at home parent because they have the means to do so.
CP quit working to stay home with other children (no special needs) from new relationship.
How would child support worksheet be completed if CP has no income but will be able to claim expenses on child on the worksheet?
If the custodial parent is unemployed in good faith, then no income is listed for that parent on the child support worksheet. This would mean the noncustodial parent’s income would make up for 100% of the combined monthly gross income.
Typically a parent with no income will not have any expenses to enter into the child support worksheet (for example, unemployment means no work-related childcare costs and generally means no health insurance premium costs) unless there is a biological or adopted child living with the custodial parent whose other parent is not the parent to the children in which child support is be calculated for.
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Thank you for the response. Yes, the CP is remarried and has additional children with new spouse. It appears quite “unfair” for the support to shift 100% to the NCP just because the CP has decided to be a stay at home parent. When I used the worksheet it would appear that any expenses such as health insurance premiums, private school would likely be in the CP column with $0 income and the NCP income which has not changed since support was reviewed 3 yrs ago will basically increase to cover any cost the CP it claiming in their column because they have $0 income.