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The High-Earner Problem: Child Support and the “Extraordinarily High Income” Exception

California’s child support system is designed to produce consistent and predictable results. Most family law attorneys are familiar with the process: you input the parties’ income, plug in the parenting timeshare, run the statewide guideline calculation, and out comes a number that the law presumes to be the correct amount of support.
Most of the time, the system works exactly as intended.
But every now and then, a case comes along that makes lawyers (and sometimes judges) pause and ask a different question: what happens when one of the parents earns an extraordinary amount of money?

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