Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: chilid support issue

Child support is calculated based upon three factors. Your income, the mother's income and the time that you spend with the children. With two children, the law presumes that you will spend about 40% of your takehome pay on the children. The more time that you spend with them the more credit you get for spending that 40% of your funds, because you spend money on them when they are with you. It is good that you are getting an education, but in the eyes of the courts, your first priority is to the children. There are several web sites that will calculate child support. I would suggest that you go to one of those sites and run a calculation then you will know if what she is asking for is out of line. Good Luck

Re: chilid support issue

to determine the amount of child support you should be paying the mother's gross monthly income needs to be known.

You monthly gross appears to b3 $1560. With 20% visitation and her income $1000 per month the support payment would be 368 per month. This does not take into account any of the additional information usually considered.

You should contact an attorney or the local court and put the information about you and the mother's income into the program and see what the computer says. The court uses the computer program amount in making support orders.