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· 11/23/2009

Massey v. Casals

Citations

  • 315 S.W.3d 788
  • 2009 Tenn. App. LEXIS 782
  • 2009 WL 4017256

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a juvenile court hearing, which included witness testimony and the submission of documentary evidence, met the statutory requirement
  • holding that the parent seeking to impute income to the other parent bears the burden of proving that the parent is willfully and voluntarily underemployed
  • affirming the trial court’s decision to disregard tax returns and check stubs and set income based on a substantially larger income figure stated in the parent’s mortgage application
  • father claimed an income of $70,000 per year in the child support proceedings but an income of $240,000 per year in a mortgage application
  • “Income may . . . be imputed to a parent where the court has been provided no reliable evidence of the parent’s income.”
  • father spent over $100,000 on credit card payments in the year he claimed he was earning $70,000

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Judges: Judge Holly M. Kirby

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