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Burden is on the parent seeking to exclude pass-through income from S corporation from actual income to persuade the court that the pass-through income is not available for child support purposes. Walker v. Grow, 907 A.2d 255 Md.Spec.App.,(2006).
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The burden of proof as to the existence of child care expenses for the purposes of including such expenses in an award of child support is upon the spouse who seeks actual child care expenses. Shenk v. Shenk 159 Md.App. 548, 860 A.2d 408 Md.App.,(2004).
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Burden of proving material change in circumstance is on person seeking modification of child support obligation. Corby v. McCarthy 154 Md.App. 446, 840 A.2d 188 Md.App.,(2003).
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Child born out of wedlock is entitled to the same level of support as would be afforded to a child who is the product of a marriage. Jackson v. Proctor 145 Md.App. 76, 801 A.2d 1080 Md.App.,(2002).
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In applying child support guidelines to split custody cases, basic support obligation should first be determined separately for number of children in custody of each parent, amount of child support each parent owes the other is next calculated by multiplying each parent’s proportionate share of combined adjusted actual income, represented as a percentage, by amount of basic support obligation for children in other parent’s custody, and finally, to avoid having parents exchange checks, parent owing greater amount of support will pay other parent the difference between the two amounts. Tannehill v. Tannehill 88 Md.App. 4, 591 A.2d 888 Md.App.,(1991).
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The court is required to include any extraordinary medical expenses incurred on behalf of a child, and, in an above-child- support-guidelines case, it is within the court’s discretion to include the cost of family therapy for child support purposes. Walker v. Grow 170 Md.App. 255, 907 A.2d 255 Md.App.,(2006).
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Trial court erred by imputing as gift income to wife the amount that her live-in boyfriend paid toward the bills for rent, electricity, cable, telephone service, and trash removal; the payments were not “actual income” and should not have been considered in calculating the basic child support obligation. Allred v. Allred 130 Md.App. 13, 744 A.2d 70 Md.App.,(2000).
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The issue of whether a particular gift should or should not be included in an “actual income” child support calculation is best left to the discretion of the trial court, whose decision should not be reversed unless that court acted arbitrarily or made a ruling that was clearly wrong. Frankel v. Frankel 165 Md.App. 553, 886 A.2d 136 Md.App.,(2005).
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Trial court was not required to include gifts and loans from wife’s parents when calculating wife’s income for child support purposes; many of the gifts were assets, and divorce action was a high income case. Frankel v. Frankel 165 Md.App. 553, 886 A.2d 136 Md.App.,(2005).
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“Above guidelines” child support award of $2500 per month, entered against father whose income as professional football player exceeded $500,000 per year, was not abuse of discretion, though mother’s handwritten financial statement showed total monthly expenses of only $1350 for child, where listed expenses were consistent with what mother could afford based on her own income, father had voluntarily been paying $2500 per month even though pendente lite order only required $1750 per month, and father had earlier urged court to adopt the precise amount he now challenged. Jackson v. Proctor, 801 A.2d 1080 Md.Spec.App.,(2002).
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