Imputing Income To a Parent Who Voluntarily Quits Working or Decreases Their Income

This video discusses how the court handles imputing income when a party voluntarily quits work or voluntarily reduces their income.

Jessica Ryan Keeney is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She is the Department of Child Support Services (aka DCSS) attorney for Lassen County and Plumas County (two small, rural California counties). She has practiced family law since December of 2009, when she was sworn in as an attorney in California. Before that, she worked as a law student for a family law attorney starting at the end of her second year of law school until she graduated from law school (a four-year law school program). She was a City Attorney for a small rural city in California for just shy of 5 years.

This video is not legal advice. This video is for educational purposes only. Neither Jessica Ryan Keeney nor Lassen County Department of Child Support Services, nor Plumas County Department of Child Support Services, nor anyone else can guarantee or be responsible for the outcome of your case. Be sure to seek the advice of an attorney before relying on any law or concepts discussed in this article.


The following are links to items discussed in the video.

Family Code section 4058

In re Marriage of Hinman (1997) 55 Cal.App.4th 988

In re Marriage of Wittgrove (2004) 120 Cal.App.4th 1317

In re Marriage of Bardzik (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 1291

In re Marriage of Ilas (1993) 12 Cal.App.4th 1630

In re Marriage of Padilla (1995) 38 Cal.App.4th 1212

In re Marriage of Hinman (1997) 55 Cal.App.4th 988

In re Marriage of Mosley (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 1375

In re Marriage of Cheriton (2001) 92 Cal.App.4th at p. 269

In re Marriage of Lim & Carrasco (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th 768

In re Marriage of LaBass & Munsee (1997) 56 Cal.App.4th 1331

In re Marriage of Ficke (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 10

In re Marriage of Paulin (1996) 46 Cal.App.4th

Marriage of Berger (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 1070

In re Marriage of Simpson (1992) 4 Cal.4th 224

County of Kern v. Castle (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 1442

In re Marriage of Eggers (2005) 131 Cal.App.4th 695

McHugh v McHugh (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 1238

Lonergan v. Scolnick (1954) 129 Cal.App.2d 179, 183

Although the following links may not be mentioned in this video, they link to information that is often helpful in IV-D child support and family law matters.

Copies of California Judicial Council forms can be found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/formname.htm.

Date Time Calculator is available at https://www.timeanddate.com/date/date...

CSDA Attorney Sourcebook, AKA DCSS Sourcebook, AKA Child Support Bible can be purchased at: https://csdaca.org/product-category/p...

California Statutes Including the Family Code: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...

California Child Support Services: childsupport.ca.gov

Lassen County Department of Child Support Services: http://lassencounty.org/dept/departme...

For more resources visit Jessica Ryan Keeney’s web page at: https://jessicaryankeeneylaw.myfreesi...