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Family,
California Courts of Appeal

Jul. 24, 2020

Ruling weighs in on determining gross income available for child support

The 5th District Court of Appeal recently clarified two principles of California family law.

Franklin R. Garfield

Garfield & Tepper

Email: frank@frankgarfield.com

In Hein v. Hein, 2020 DJDAR 7690 (July 21, 2020), the 5th District Court of Appeal clarified two principles of California family law. The first is intuitive and unexceptional: Paper losses do not reduce the amount of income available for child support. The second topples a line of cases that had been widely interpreted to stand for the proposition that a party's gross in...

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