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House approves child-support amendment limiting post-divorce second-job income
Summary
The House passed SB49 (child-support amendments) 58–10, adopting a provision that generally limits child-support calculations to the equivalent of one full-time (40-hour) job at the time of divorce and narrows the circumstances in which subsequent second-job income can be recomputed into support obligations.
On Feb. 14, 1996, the Utah House approved Senate Bill 49, a child-support amendment carried on the floor by Representative Atkinson and sponsored in the Senate by Senator Lyle Hilliard. The bill changes how post-divorce income is treated in child-support calculations.
Under the measure, courts generally compute child support using the equivalent of one full-time (40-hour) job at the time of the original order. Income from a second job taken after the divorce…
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