Should this happen?
If you are married. If you profess to be a team. You two are now one. You call the skids "your family", you want say in how things are done with someone elses kids in your home.
Should a stepparents income be considered as household income when figuring CS amounts?
No, no matter how things run or whatever say you have in your house over the children in the household, legally only the parents have financial responsibility and rights for their children.
I get a say in how my household is run. Child support and even step children don't determine that. It is my household. If DH and I got to the point where no compromise would work then I would be getting a new household. Having a say in that doesn't make me in any way responsible for SD. Why would I be responsible in any way for child support?
We are a team in our household.
If my income is going to be considered then so should SF's. But, since he feels like he doesn't have to work he has no income. That's just not fair. I would take my toys and go home for that injustice.
Until then I guess my income will only contribute to the skids while they are here and help support our household instead of both houses.
Quoting CoochieLibre:Hmm. That's a tough one. If SP's income is calculated into CS then would SP have a say in all things pertaining to the children?
This.
This isnt about you paying. This is about SP's income being used as part of the household income for the final figuring for CS.
Quoting baparrot2:
This isnt about you paying. This is about SP's income being used as part of the household income for the final figuring for CS.
If SP's income is calculated into CS then technically they are paying part of it.
No it shouldn't, only the income or the imputed income of the legal parents should be considered. Imputed income in cases where the bioparent is a SAH parent or unemployed.
They think she took him and ran...
- baparrot2
on May. 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM