In Re the Marriage of Knickerbocker

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that when a person’s income fluctuates, the court must average the person’s income over a reasonable period of years
• recognizing a party may factor in straight-line depreciation when determining the party’s income for child support purposes
• finding that substantial fluctuations in earnings make it necessary to average the parent’s income over a reasonable time to arrive at current monthly income
• holding court of appeals properly recalculated income under straight-line method of depreciation
• finding it was reasonable for court to average four years of income for support calculation given the fluctuations in the husband’s farm income
• “Iowa case law clearly allows a court to compute a parent’s annual income by using the [average] method . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).