Bustin v. Bustin’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It appears from a plain reading of the text that the statute addresses' the issue of income and what is included when tabulating child support. The phrase “any other form of earned income”, would seem to include items in a person’s salary package. William is given that housing allowance as part of his salary from the church. If William went to a bank tomorrow and applied for a loan, he would most definitely list his housing allowance as income in order to show that he would be able to repay his loan. Salary from one’s employer is one . of the key elements when estimating everything from income taxes to interest rates on a bank loan. Moreover, computing one’s income for taxation is different than computing one’s income for child[-]support purposes. Our state must protect the best interests of the child. One of the ways Mississippi accomplishes that goal is child[-]support enforcement through statutes. Our statutes delineate what is to be considered as gross income for the purposes of computing child support. This issue is also without merit.”

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   e.g. 187 So. 3d 159 - Donna Hartsoe Price v. Timothy Michael Snowden

2. “Determine gross income from all potential sources that may reasonably be expected to be available to the absent parent including, but not limited to, the following: wages and salary income; income from self-employment; income from commissions; income from investments,-including dividends, interest income!,] and income on any trust account or property; absent parent’s portion of any joint income of both parents; workers’ compensation, disability, unemployment, annuity and retirement benefits, including an Individual Retirement Account (IRA); any other payments made by any person, private entity, federal or state government or any unit of local government; alimony; any income earned from an interest in or from inherited property; any other form of earned income; and gross income shall exclude any monetary benefits derived from a second household, such as income of the absent parent’s current spouse[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Raymond Curtis Branch v. Lauren Hoover Branch