Jose Gutierrez-Zavala v. Merrick Garland

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• judge may consider “material disparity in the standard of living in the respective parents’ households” in fashioning award of child support
• denial of request for increased child support upheld despite substantial increase in father’s income, where trial judge found that increased income did not result in material disparity in parties’ living standards
• goal of maintaining standard of living of family as though it had remained intact has limits; increase in child support based solely on increase in income of noncustodial spouse “may have the effect of constructively distributing the noncustodial parent’s estate, and is accordingly disfavored”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).