jumpstreet
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Off the current topic but there was so much debate regarding Brad's income. This link is from 2006 but, maybe I'm reading it wrong, it seems to indicate that in order to pay $2000/month for child support, the gross monthly income would be ~$16,000, which would equate to around $192,000 annual income. Does anyone from North Carolina know if these tables are accurate and if this is, in fact, how child support is determined?
http://www.nccourts.org/Forms/Documents/981.pdf
I checked our Canadian child support tables for Alberta and it says someone with an income over $150,000/year would pay $2096 in monthly child support plus 1.32% of the income over $150K. Other costs associated with the upbringing is usually split 50/50 between both parents (sports, lessons, healthcare costs that aren't covered). Although their drafted separation agreement states that Brad would cover private schools for the girls, there really aren't a great deal of private schools up here.
Just throwing that out there while we wait for the SWs to be unsealed.
I've wondered if the proposed terms of the draft divorce settlement were indeed "usual". At first glance, it seemed fairly excessive to me (without knowing of course the exact incoming level of BC). IIRC, the 2K/month in child-support was going to be in addition to a (yet unnamed) alimony also.
Maybe it was just the first-round of negotation, and (like most "first offers" of negotiation, it was intentionally one-sided in hopes of getting what one "really wants" in the middle). [ ie, I want to spend 5K for the car... I will offer the dealer 2K and see what happens... ]
Anyway, not sure if anyone else familiar can speak to whether the proposed terms (including some of the financial specifics) seemed unusual... or... completely customary (for a first salvo anyway).