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CS is not going to be based on step-dad's anything.

Go and read this site: http://www.njchildsupport.org/
41. The rules of The Court for “Other Dependent Deduction” in Appendix IX-A, Paragraph 10 are as follows:

10. Adjustments to the Support Obligation - The factors listed below may require an
adjustment to the basic child support obligation.
a. Other Legal Dependents of Either Parent - These guidelines include a mechanism to
apportion a parent's income to all of his or her legal dependents regardless of the
timing of their birth or family association (i.e., if a divorced parent remarries and has
children, that parent's income should be shared by all children born to that parent).
Legal dependents include adopted or natural children of either parent who are less
than 18 years of age or more than 18 years of age and still attending high school or
other secondary school. Stepchildren are not considered legal dependents unless a
court has found that the stepparent has a legal responsibility for the stepchildren.
When considering the use of this adjustment, the following principles shall apply:
(1) this adjustment shall be used only if requested by a serial-family
parent and the income, if any, of the other parent of the secondary
family is provided to the court;

(2) if the other parent in the secondary family is voluntarily unemployed or
underemployed, the court shall impute income to that person (see
paragraph 12) to determine the serial family parent's obligation to the
children in the secondary family;

(3) this adjustment may be applied to other dependents born before or
after the child for whom support is being determined;
(4) this adjustment may be requested by either or both parents (custodial
and/or non-custodial);
(5) the adjustment may be applied when the initial award is entered or
during subsequent modifications of the support order.

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That site (www.njchildsupport.org) has a whole host of problems, ever since they redesigned it. I have to also explain that to the Court, because they apparently trusted the online records and the automated voice response phone system that is based on them when they drafted the tentative order. They don't reflect proper or up to date payments, which they'll admit to, if you actually speak with a representative.