Jackson v. Tire Distribution Services, Inc.

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• explaining that ‘‘gross income’’ for child support purposes is ‘‘the average weekly income before deductions’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• such benefits paid to children are replacement for lost income and are better characterized as income to the obligor than to the children
• Social Security benefits paid to a child are part of that parent's gross income and that parent may take credit for it
• noncustodial father allowed an offset against child support for dependency benefits paid to children but required to include these amounts as income for purposes of determining the amount of his child-support obligation under the guidelines
• in determining a parent’s child support obligation, the definition of “gross income” found in the child support guidelines is the definition that is determinative rather than the state or federal tax code definition of the term
• “[N]either the state nor federal tax code definition is controlling [in determining whether something is income for child support purposes]. Because the guidelines contain their own definition of gross income, it is that definition that is determinative.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).