DocketNumber: No. FA88 024 79 30 S
Citation Numbers: 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 11779
Judges: BASSICK, JUDGE TRIAL REFEREE.
Filed Date: 9/22/2000
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/17/2021
The defendant is employed as a school teacher with the Stratford school system, an English teacher in Stratford High School. In the summer time he works at the Patterson County Club in Fairfield as the head swimming coach and pool director. He, like the plaintiff, has remarried since the judgment of dissolution and has two children of that marriage — George, age 4, and John, age 2.
The parties have stipulated that there has been a substantial change of circumstances such that the plaintiff's motion should be granted. The parties, however, are unable to agree to the amount of current support.
In view of the additional dependants for whom the defendant is responsible for support, child support must be calculated in accordance with §
The defendant seeks a deviation from the child support guidelines under the provisions of §
"(4) Needs of a parent's other dependents
In some cases, a parent may be legally responsible for the support of individuals other than the child whose support is being determined. In such cases, it may be appropriate to deviate from presumptive support CT Page 11781 amounts based on the following factors:
(A) resources available to a qualified child for whom a deduction was taken under subsection (c) of section
46b-215a-2a of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies; . . . ."
However, there has been no evidence of "resources" available to George and John, defendant's children of his subsequent marriage. Indeed, there has been evidence of expenses rather than resources", these being day care expenses necessary for these two children of $258 per week and expenses for son James when he visits with his father on weekends. A "resource" that might be considered as such for George and John is their mother's part time gross income of $538 per week ($28,000) per year. She is employed at Oxford Health Plan. This income of the wife may properly be considered in arriving at the defendant's expenses. McGuinness v.McGuinness,
Having considered the equities recited by both counsel, the court concludes that the presumptive amount as calculated by the child support guidelines is the proper amount of child support in this case. The court, therefore, grants the motion for modification of child support and orders $150 per week child support to be paid by the defendant to the plaintiff effective August 31, 2000, the date of service of the citation. There is an arrearage, therefore, of $450 less $250 presumably paid for the month of September making an arrearage of $200. This shall be paid at the rate of $25.00 per week until fully paid.
EDGAR W. BASSICK, III JUDGE TRIAL REFEREE