CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Child Support
......Amount
.........Financial Ability
............Bonuses
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Income for child support included bonuses.

Court may adjust child support order to accommodate seasonal or fluctuating income of either parent.

F's bonuses from Indian tribe properly included as gross income in c/s calculation, and he did not meet his burden of proving they were speculative.

Court must include past bonus income absent evidence that it will not recur.

May not base monthly support amount on the predicted receipt of a large bonus that might never materialize.

Payor may be ordered to pay percentage of future bonus as additional child support.

Courts may award portions of future bonuses as additional child support.