Eidson v. Eidson’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “On remand, the court has two options in providing for the payment of the child’s necessary expenses. The court may, after considering all of the relevant evidence, include an amount it deems fair and appropriate on line 4e of Form 14 as “extraordinary expenses” associated with rearing the child. See Rule 88.01. Alternatively, the court may, after considering all of the relevant evidence, find that the use of Form 14 in calculating child support would be unjust or inappropriate and may issue a separate order and judgment for the child support amount. See § 452.340, RSMo 1994; Rule 88.01 Directions for Completion of Form 14, line 4d (directing that costs for single occurrence illnesses or injuries should be handled by separate order); Crews v. Crews, 949 S.W.2d 659, 668 (Mo.App. W.D.1997) (stating that the court may, in accordance with Form 14, enter a separate order to handle “single-occurrence” illness). To permit the trial court to exercise its complete discretion in fashioning a support order that considers all the needs of the child, the judgment is reversed and the case is remanded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schriner v. Edwards

2. “The court made a specific finding that due to his physical condition, the child has immediate physical and medical need for: (1) a handicap conversion van costing $45,020; (2) a manual wheelchair to fit the child’s increase in size costing $3,587; (3) modifications to Mother’s home to provide wheel chair accessibility costing $20,000; (4) an additional room with lift equipment and wheelchair accessibility for the child’s use costing $20,000; (5) an electric wheelchair costing $15,000; (6) widening and modification of the doorways in Mother’s home to provide wheelchair accessibility for the child costing $5,420; (7) other capital improvements and items immediately needed for the child costing $40,000; (8) other extraordinary medical expenses not covered by health insurance including the cost of medical mileage and weekly therapy costing $944 per month; (9) home health care costing $1,354.50 per month; and (10) out of home medical supervised care for two months costing $2,800.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schriner v. Edwards