child support
iPhone App Calculates Texas Child Support
July 30, 2009
Dallas, Texas - VernerLegal, an
attorney-owned legal software company, has released
the
Texas Child Support Calculator ("CS Calc") for
iPhones. Tested against the Texas Attorney General's
child support charts, CS Calc enables attorneys and
non-attorneys to calculate Texas guideline child
support on the fly. Attorneys can use CS Calc to
calculate Texas child support at trial, in mediation,
in collaborative law or when consulting with
potential clients. Non-attorneys can determine the
amount of child support they will pay or receive.
How does it work? With only five inputs, CS Calc determines the precise amount of child support to be paid. The user selects whether he is self-employed, then inputs his gross annual income, the number of children before the court, the annual cost of health insurance for the children, and the number of children (if any) he is already obliged to support. CS Calc applies federal tax law and Texas child support percentages to calculate child support.
CS Calc was created by Texas board-certified family law attorney Jimmy Verner who is the principal in VernerLegal. "CS Calc will be indispensable to attorneys because they can calculate child support with five inputs rather than pore over the Attorney General's charts," said Verner. "Those who are thinking of divorcing or want to modify their child support payments will be able to calculate exactly where they stand."
CS Calc is cataloged at the iTunes store under "Texas child support calculator." It can also be found by searching the iTunes store for VernerLegal.
Texas Lawyer's "Tex Parte Blog" reviewed the child support calculator in a posting called Texas child support? There's an app for that.
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas
How does it work? With only five inputs, CS Calc determines the precise amount of child support to be paid. The user selects whether he is self-employed, then inputs his gross annual income, the number of children before the court, the annual cost of health insurance for the children, and the number of children (if any) he is already obliged to support. CS Calc applies federal tax law and Texas child support percentages to calculate child support.
CS Calc was created by Texas board-certified family law attorney Jimmy Verner who is the principal in VernerLegal. "CS Calc will be indispensable to attorneys because they can calculate child support with five inputs rather than pore over the Attorney General's charts," said Verner. "Those who are thinking of divorcing or want to modify their child support payments will be able to calculate exactly where they stand."
CS Calc is cataloged at the iTunes store under "Texas child support calculator." It can also be found by searching the iTunes store for VernerLegal.
Texas Lawyer's "Tex Parte Blog" reviewed the child support calculator in a posting called Texas child support? There's an app for that.
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas
Guns, Drugs and Money Show Ability to Pay
April 15, 2009
We've previously
blogged about inability to pay as a defense to a
child support contempt citation. In In re:
Corder, No. 01-09-00004-CV (Tex. App. - Houston
[1st Dist.] Apr. 10, 2009, orig. proceeding), an
obligor claimed an inability to pay but was
successfully impeached when a "Sheriff's Petition and
Notice of Seizure and Intended Forfeiture" was
admitted into evidence. The Petition reflected that
upon his recent arrest, the obligor had "$6,639 cash
in his pocket and a Ruger .45 caliber pistol, a
Marlin .22 caliber firearm, an Ultra High Powered .22
caliber rifle, multiple prescription drugs, and six
baggies, believed to contain marijuana." This
evidence, the First Court of Appeals dryly observed,
"tended to discredit and to impeach his testimony
that during the period in question, he was unable to
obtain employment."
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas
No Child Support Offset for Infomal Payments
April 08, 2009
The Dallas Court of Appeals rejected a father’s
argument that pre-divorce payments to the mother
should offset post-divorce child support because
informal payments do not constitute child support. In
addition, a divorce decree does not relieve one of
child support obligations in temporary orders. In
the Interest of R.F.G., No. 05-08-00285-CV (Tex.
App. - Dallas Apr. 3, 2009).
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas
Courtesy of Verner & Brumley, P.C. Dallas, Texas