child support in california is actually
determined
through
what we call a disso master program
and it’s a program that was developed by
the legislature which takes into
consideration
a formulaic
calculation
looking at somebody’s income
looking at whether they pay health
insurance looking at whether they have
perquisites whether they have property
tax deductions so it’s a it’s a
kind of something that you the the late
the ordinary layperson would never
understand we barely understand how it’s
done as family law practitioners we’ve
learned to navigate the system so
the basic formula for child support is
based on someone’s income it’s still
that simple although there are many
variations to determining what is
what we call guideline child support and
when guideline child support doesn’t
apply
it’s usually when you have such an
extraordinarily high income earner so if
somebody you know like um
i don’t know barack obama who’s a
multi-millionaire is getting divorced
you’re not going to have a guideline
child support order for
him
he’s going to be outside the guideline
and the
test is then the children’s needs so
normally like like like i said child
support is governed by disa master in
most cases except for
those
extraordinary cases where someone’s very
very wealthy for example