Florida court orders child support redo after husband's $8,600 bills counted
A Florida appeals court has ordered a recalculation of child support after a lower court incorrectly included a new spouse's financial contributions as the mother's income. The ruling clarifies that household support from a new partner does not constitute personal income for legal support assessments.
Why it matters
This case sets a legal precedent for how courts calculate child support in blended families, ensuring financial fairness for custodial parents.
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday ordered a fresh calculation of child support in a dispute involving a mother whose monthly income of $1,500 had been assessed at $10,100 after a lower court included $8,600 paid by her new husband towards household expenses.According to the judgment document available on Justia, Bianca Rampartap had sought higher child support from her former husband, Darryl Rampartap, who had moved to Trinidad and stopped spending parenting time with their child. After the lower court included the money spent by her new husband as her income, the appeals court has now ruled that it could not be treated as her income simply because he covered those expenses.Rampartap and her former husband, Darryl Rampartap, divorced in 2016. Nearly a decade later, their disagreement over financial support for their child brought them back to court.
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