Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois

Re: child support calculation

This is how "Net Income" is defined in the statute:

(3) "Net income" is defined as the total of all

income from all sources, minus the following deductions:

(a) Federal income tax (properly calculated

withholding or estimated payments);

(b) State income tax (properly calculated

withholding or estimated payments);

(c) Social Security (FICA payments);

(d) Mandatory retirement contributions required

by law or as a condition of employment;

(e) Union dues;

(f) Dependent and individual

health/hospitalization insurance premiums;

(g) Prior obligations of support or maintenance

actually paid pursuant to a court order;

(h) Expenditures for repayment of debts that

represent reasonable and necessary expenses for the production of income, medical expenditures necessary to preserve life or health, reasonable expenditures for the benefit of the child and the other parent, exclusive of gifts. The court shall reduce net income in determining the minimum amount of support to be ordered only for the period that such payments are due and shall enter an order containing provisions for its self‑executing modification upon termination of such payment period.