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18% REDUCTION IN INCOME SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT RECALCULATION OF CHILD SUPPORT.

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined an 18% reduction in father’s income was sufficient to warrant a recalculation of his child support:

… [T]he father cites his significantly reduced income from 2012 to 2013 as the requisite change in circumstances. We agree with the father that such income reduction—approximately 18%—constitutes a sufficient change in circumstances to warrant a recalculation of his child support obligation … . Matter of Brink v Brink, 2017 NY Slip Op 00879, 4th Dept 2-3-17

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