15 Va. App. 587 - Mayers v. Mayers’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2011
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 1 Va. App. 118 - Parra v. Parra · 1 Va. App. 11 - Tiffany v. Tiffany · 12 Va. App. 18 - Richardson v. Richardson · 13 Va. App. 151 - Watkinson v. Henley · 12 Va. App. 1245 - Scott v. Scott
Most-quoted passages
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“The procedure to be followed in calculating child support was articulated in Richardson v. Richardson, 12 Va. App. 18 , 401 S.E.2d 894 (1991). “The starting point for a trial court in determining the monthly child support obligation of a party is the amount as computed by the schedule found in Code § 20-108.2(B). This amount is determined according to a schedule that varies according to the combined gross income of the parties and the number of children involved. No additions or subtractions from the gross income, as defined in Code § 20-108.2(C), . . . may be made before this figure is determined. However, after determining the presumptive amount of support according to the schedule, the trial court may adjust the amount based on the factors found in Code §§ 20-107.2 and 20-108.1. Deviations from the presumptive support obligation must be supported by written findings which state why the application of the guidelines in the particular case would be unjust or inappropriate.” Id. at 21, 401 S.E.2d at 896 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Code § 20-109.1 provides, in relevant part, as follows: Any court may affirm, ratify and incorporate by reference in its decree dissolving a marriage or decree of divorce whether from the bond of matrimony or from bed and board, or by a separate decree prior to or subsequent to. such decree, ... any valid agreement between the parties, or provisions thereof, concerning the conditions of the maintenance of the parties, or either of them and the care, custody and maintenance of their minor children, or establishing or imposing any other condition or consideration, monetary or nonmonetary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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