time for the ex to pay child support

After 5 years of paying alimony, my obligation is over because the ex got remarried. Now I want to get her to pay child support since I have full custody of our daughter. I live in California...how do they calculate how much she will have to pay?

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[This message has been edited by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE (edited October 13, 2000).]

Hi IAAL
I read your response on this post. I have a question on this topic.
I live in NY, I just got done with a court hearing that was initiated by my ex wife for an upward modification in child support. The judge and the lawyers only looked at my data and not my ex wifes. All they did was take my gross pay and with a simple hand held calculator compute 29% (3 children) of my gross pay. This 29% is what I was told I had to pay at this time for child support. Does this sound correct the way they calculated? <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE:
[b] My response:

You see an attorney.

Your question is so general as to be impossible to answer. Too many financial variable involved on a Bulletin Board. Your attorney will use a computer program (probably "Dissomaster") to plug in all of your data, and your ex-wife's data, and spit out the numbers according to Statute.

IAAL


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[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

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[This message has been edited by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE (edited October 13, 2000).]

Thank you for your response IAAL <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by I AM ALWAYS LIABLE:
[b] My response:

Umm, nnoo!

Unless the Statute for calculating child support says, " . . . and shall be calculated only by use of a handheld calculator, and the wife's income and expenses shall not be figured into the equation" then I believe you should see another attorney and appeal the decision.

You see, in California, all of the mathematical algorithms are actually laid out in the Statute. It's unbelievable, but the legislature actually put all the arithmetic theorums into the Statute! It looks like a college level math test, or something from the SAT. It is from those arithmetic algorithms that Dissomaster calculates support - - not by merely dividing income amounts and figuring percentages. While somewhat confusing, it allows an accurate rendition of the amounts that should be paid - - by both parties.

I can only imagine that New York MUST have something similar, and that someone failed to properly utilize the New York statute for your figures. That's my surmize and supposition based upon your post.

IAAL

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