CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Current C/S Guidelines
.........Income Defined
............Earning Ability/Capacity
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Court may consider parent's earning capacity if consistent with best interest of child.

Use of earning capacity in lieu of actual earnings in setting child support.

Court may calculate guideline by “earning capacity,” utilizing only positive income numbers, rather than actual earnings when parent has high business expenses.

Where W remarried and voluntarily quit job, income for child support formula properly based on earning capacity rather than actual earnings.

Child support properly based on prior year's income where payor did not adequately document claim of reduced income.