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    Default Is Child Support Received for a Child from a Prior Relationship Treated as Income

    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Tn

    Is previous support being received by my son's mom from a past relationship for a child considered income when calculating child support for our child? An additional question...I will be paying health insurance for my son...I have two other children from another relationship who live with me half the time and I pay their health insurance...if I insure one child or 3, the cost is the same. Can I claim credit for the full amount of the monthly premium when calculating this new child support for my son? I will sure appreciate information anyone can give me.

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    Default Re: Is Child Support Received for a Child from a Prior Relationship Treated as Income

    I am going to start this off by saying that I could have interpreted the worksheet wrong, but from what I can tell.

    1)No you cannot count child support from a previous relationship as income. The order that is between the two of them is regarding the support of their child. And if you think about it, the amount that you pay should not be reduced by what she receives from that relationship because he is under no obligation to support your child.

    2)The worksheet states "Children's portion of health insurance premium." To me, this sounds as if you would take the total additional premium of what it takes to add children to the policy and divide it by the number of children. So if its 90 dollars to add them, and you have three kids, then it would be 30 dollars for each of them.

    Here is a link to the worksheet.
    http://www.tennessee.gov/humanservic...ines-downloads

    There will be other posters who stop by who will correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, this is how I interpreted it.

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    Default Re: Is Child Support Received for a Child from a Prior Relationship Treated as Income

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    I am going to start this off by saying that I could have interpreted the worksheet wrong, but from what I can tell.

    1)No you cannot count child support from a previous relationship as income. The order that is between the two of them is regarding the support of their child. And if you think about it, the amount that you pay should not be reduced by what she receives from that relationship because he is under no obligation to support your child.

    2)The worksheet states "Children's portion of health insurance premium." To me, this sounds as if you would take the total additional premium of what it takes to add children to the policy and divide it by the number of children. So if its 90 dollars to add them, and you have three kids, then it would be 30 dollars for each of them.

    Here is a link to the worksheet.
    http://www.tennessee.gov/humanservic...ines-downloads

    There will be other posters who stop by who will correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, this is how I interpreted it.
    Personally, I think that you got it right.

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    Default Re: Is Child Support Received for a Child from a Prior Relationship Treated as Income

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    I am going to start this off by saying that I could have interpreted the worksheet wrong, but from what I can tell.

    1)No you cannot count child support from a previous relationship as income. The order that is between the two of them is regarding the support of their child. And if you think about it, the amount that you pay should not be reduced by what she receives from that relationship because he is under no obligation to support your child.

    2)The worksheet states "Children's portion of health insurance premium." To me, this sounds as if you would take the total additional premium of what it takes to add children to the policy and divide it by the number of children. So if its 90 dollars to add them, and you have three kids, then it would be 30 dollars for each of them.

    Here is a link to the worksheet.
    http://www.tennessee.gov/humanservic...ines-downloads


    There will be other posters who stop by who will correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read, this is how I interpreted it.
    I agree with you.

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