In Re: Pranav Chitkara, M.D. v. the State of Texas

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• holding that a one-time gift from the payor’s father was includable as income because the court was not dealing with indeterminate payments arriving at some future time; the court must consider the actual resources available to the payor parent
• holding that a one-time gift from the payor's father was includable as income because the court was not dealing with indeterminate payments arriving at some future time; the court must consider the actual resources available to the payor parent
• reiterating that including as income a onetime gift or inheritance would \unfairly inflate\ a child support obligation beyond the obligor's reliable and continuing future resources
• requiring that retrospective support be calculated based on actual income
• ordering mother to reimburse father for her share of child support during period when children were returned to father under interim custody order even though interim order was silent on issue of child support
• ordering a trial court in setting child support to consider as income money given by a father to his obligor daughter where it was undisputed that the cash gifts would continue through time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).