Bonuses and child support?

[Clay C]

Bonuses and child support?

He had children he needs to pay for them... If he feels he got screwed take it to court. I don’t understand the “men” that feel they were dealt a bad hand when they were a part in it! I know some circumstances where the man has no choice but, if you make the child, expect to pay for them.

Someone was anxious to get their 2 cents in and didn’t read the OP.





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[SC-Texas]

The order will set the monthly amount and it will stay that amount until modified.

A one time 100k bonus would possibly not be counted and I would take that to the judge.

Profit sharing would be counted per family code.

Basically you would take the last 6 months of your earnings and compare that to your last tax return and if there were no big deviations you base your child support off of that. The child support shouldn't fluctuate every month based on the Monthly our gangs at least not in Texas

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[SC-Texas]

There's the problem, the "take it to court" attitude is asinine. If you haven't dealt with it personally (And i hope you never do) you have no idea the BS that's involved and you should keep your unknowledged thoughts to yourself. Just my EXPERIENCED opinion.

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Sometimes you are dealing with an unreasonable party and you have to let the judge make that decision

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[Atfulldraw]

We have a guy that works for us that just told us Friday his wife has filed for divorce. He makes about $42k per year (hourly). We had a really good year last year and paid him a $12k bonus because he was a key man in making it happen. He’s worried that now his child support is going to based on an artificial amount of income instead of what he normally makes. Did we screw him over?

No, you didn't screw him over.

His ex-wife likely will though, as well as the family court judge, as well as his lawyer.

They are all complicit in the scheme known as "child support"

[cashcropper]

First of all I am no lawyer but this is my personal experience.I dealt with an issue similar to this in my divorce. I always worked a good bit of overtime during my first marriage. When I got a divorce, my lawyer as well as ex wifes lawyer made it clear to me that bonuses as well as overtime count as income. My problem with it was this: We agreed on equal time to have the kids,I planned on not working overtime so I could have them on my days off(I work shift so I am off 14 days per month) yet with the child support amount set on my income which included overtime I had to give up some of my time with them because now I had to work some overtime just to be able to make the payment.Get the absolute best lawyer you can,even if you have to finance them. To me it wasn't about the money,it was about the time I couldn't spend with them due to inflated child support.I know this post kind of got off track but some of it was a response to the guy stating "You have kids now pay for them"

[JakeM]

We work shift work (hourly) and everyone in my unit that is divorced the judge based their child support off of overtime and bonus when we arent guaranteed overtime or a bonus

[Grndchecker]

Any income including salary, bonus, overtime, rental property income, interest from savings, and any other income can be used to calculate CS. Every time I was taken back to court for yet more support (every two years), I had my employer write a letter that said "this is his yearly salary, overtime is not guaranteed."

[Smart]

Someone was anxious to get their 2 cents in and didn’t read the OP.





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Yup... fired his gun without making sure of his target just to hear it go bang.

[Lonestar_HOYT]

Can’t be, we don’t do that round here

[breadman]

if your stuck with it get rid of OT and bounus $ and take her back to court every two years to have it reduced . if you were to lose your job and have to take a lesser paying job you have the right to have it reduced also.

[Drycreek3189]

He had children he needs to pay for them... If he feels he got screwed take it to court. I don’t understand the “men” that feel they were dealt a bad hand when they were a part in it! I know some circumstances where the man has no choice but, if you make the child, expect to pay for them.

Yeah,I had no problem with supporting my kids. The problem I had was with her using that money to keep one of the little thugs from her first marriage out of jail while my kids did without. Once that “child support” money gets out of your hands no mechanism is in place to make sure it gets spent where it should. All people don’t go through the same experiences and one size never fits all !

[Clay C]

Yeah,I had no problem with supporting my kids. The problem I had was with her using that money to keep one of the little thugs from her first marriage out of jail while my kids did without. Once that “child support” money gets out of your hands no mechanism is in place to make sure it gets spent where it should. All people don’t go through the same experiences and one size never fits all !

I know more than one person who pays child support, AND does everything else they can for the kids while going without for themselves. Meanwhile the mothers use the child support as a second income to pay for hobbies and vacations.


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[Krivoman]

They will base your monthly deductions off of your base salary. Have work write letter stating it was a 1 time bonus. You dont want your monthly amount based on income you are not forsure gonna make.

[Jon P]

When I went through this 8 years ago my lawyer told me that my bonuses or raises would be counted toward child support. As long as you can show that this was a bonus and not primary income the judge should let it go. That was in my case don't know about others.

[ren087]

I dealt with this first hand. If he has a court order and the employer is required to take x amount of his pay and send to the AG, ANY money he gets from employer (regular, bonus, etc) WILL have the court ordered percentage or dollar amount taken out. He has no control over that unless he gets the court to modify the order.