971 So. 2d 263 - Leonard v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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1. “[a] trial court can impute income where a spouse has failed to use his or her best efforts to earn income. A claim that a payor spouse has arranged his financial affairs or employment situation so as to shortchange the payee spouse is a valid matter to be explored in determining the payor's real ability to pay. When the obligor spouse voluntarily becomes unemployed or underemployed, the income that he or she is capable of earning may be imputed for purposes of determining an appropriate award of support.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 993 So. 2d 1066 - Griffin v. Griffin · 2010 OK CIV APP 74 - Marriage of Parnell v. Parnell

2. “must consider the payor’s age, health, and motivation for retirement, as well as the type of work the payor performs and the age at which others engaged in that line of work normally retire ... Even at the age of sixty-five or later, a payor spouse should not be permitted to unilaterally choose voluntary retirement if this choice places the receiving spouse in peril of poverty. Thus, the court should consider the needs of the receiving spouse and the impact a termination or reduction of alimony would have on him or her. In assessing those needs, the court should consider any assets which the receiving spouse has accumulated or received since the final judgment as well as any income generated by those assets.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 162 So. 3d 65 - Anderson v. Durham