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Child Support

David Siegel: Right. Now the person who has custody, the day-to-day physical custody of the child or children, is entitled to child support under the law. How is child support figured?

Jesse Barrientes: What they look at, it depends upon how many children you have. If it’s one child it’s 20 percent of your net. If it’s two it’s 28 percent. If it’s three it’s 32 percent. What they’re going to look at, and what’s important is what net income is as defined, and in the statute –

David Siegel: Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage.

Jesse Barrientes: – has a statutory scheme where it sets out what the definition of that income is, and what they’re going to look at, they’re going to let you take out your federal taxes, they’re going to let you take out your state taxes, Medicare, and all that. They’re going to let you take things, for example, for union dues. They’re going to let you take out mandatory pension. A lot of times if you’re a federal employee, you don’t pay regular taxes. You have your mandatory pension and you do pay Medicare, and those things come out. Again, the union dues, your expenses for insurance, for health insurance are going to come out of that as well.

And once we’ve taken all of those things out, you’re Chicago divorce lawyer is going to find out what your net income is, and then we’re going to multiply that by those numbers to determine what the amount is. That’s the statutory guideline of support. Now, it can go above that amount or below that amount, depending upon the situation, and so it just depends. If it’s a special needs child, it could be more. If the child doesn’t need that much or something is figured into the property settlement, like I give you all the equity in the house, that would be a reason to deviate and go downwards.

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