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