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Old 07-31-2006, 02:26 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by troutman
When the children live more than 60% of the time with one parent, the payee's income is not relevant in caculating basic child support from the table. It is only relevant in calculating proportional shares for the children's extraordinary expenses (or in the rarely succesfful undue hardship applications).

The federal child support guidelines:

http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/sup/grl/glp.html
I ws just about to post that same info. Good job.

BTW, the underlying philosophy behind all of this is that the system is created to absolutely protect the children. Which is how it should be, in my view. I have no sympathy for deadbeat parents. Not saying that anyone here is, but those young-uns need to be protected at all costs.
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