Originally Posted by
Direct2
I have looked on the web but per diem seems to be a rarely heard of item. I have not seen anything that goes against it in specific terms. Since no one understands it they just assume that it is income and it gets included in the child support calculations.
My quick reading of the link that I sent you DID in fact make it seem that PER DIEM was considered a form of compensation and therefore used in the CALCULATION of the child support. Now the per diem might not even be enough to bump you up into the next bracker of child support from where you would be if it were not used in the calculations in the first place, but this would seem to be a fairly easy question for a divorce lawyer from TX to figure out. I think one case in your favor is that is a constantly changing form of compensation and therefore would not be an easy number to tack down.
My sister works for the OK agency in charge of child support and such. I'll pose the question to her how OK handles it just as another example.
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