Child Support Awards Over the Income Cap
Where the combined parental income exceeds the "income cap," the test in the First and Second Departments is whether the child is receiving enough to meet his or her "actual needs and the amount required to live an appropriate lifestyle." In contrast, the Third and Fourth Departments have held that where the combined parental income is well in excess of the income cap, it is proper to consider and base the award upon the child's "actual reasonable needs."
April 08, 2022 at 12:00 PM
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Domestic Relations Law §240(1-b) and its counterpart, Family Court Act §413(1), are known as the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA). The Child Support Standards Act contains a rebuttable presumption that the application of its guidelines which result in the "basic child support obligation" will yield the correct amount of child support. This presumption may be rebutted, and the basic child support obligation adjusted, where the court finds that the non-custodial parent's support obligation is "unjust or inappropriate."
Before the passage of the Child Support Standards Act, the common law "doctrine of necessaries" entitled the child to support in accordance with the fathers' "condition and station in life." Garlock v. Garlock, 279 N.Y. 337 (1939); De Brauwere v. De Brauwere, 203 N.Y. 460 (1911)). Today, this obligation is reciprocal. Medical Business Associates v. Steiner, 183 A.D.2d 86 (2d Dep't 1992); Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hosp. v. Frey, 152 A.D.2d 73 (3d Dep't 1989). Although the obligation is reciprocal, the necessaries doctrine has not been changed as a matter of common law. Lichtman v. Grossbard, 73 N.Y.2d 792 (1988).
The Child Support Standards Act, which was enacted in 1989, replaced a needs-based discretionary system with a "precisely articulated three-step method for determining child support." Matter of Dutchess County Dept. of Social Services ex rel. Day v. Day, 96 N.Y.2d 149 (2001).
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