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Can You Impute Income for Child Support Calculations to the Opposing Party in the Orlando, Florida Area?

Whether you can impute income for Child Support Calculations to the Opposing Party in the Orlando, Florida area depends on many factors. First and foremost is whether the opposing party is voluntarily underemployed. What does voluntary underemployed mean? How do you prove that? Voluntary unemployment is where the opposing party voluntarily left his/her current employment and now makes less money because they chose to do this. This is different from underemployment where you were laid off and have tried to find a job making as much as you previously had made, but you cannot find such a job. For example, if a party abandons their career to pursue another career, that is voluntary underemployment to pursue his/her own interests. Case law establishes that voluntary underemployment is a sufficient reason/grounds to impute income.  

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