The court imputed a self-employed father's income at $35,000 due to inadequate financial disclosure, retroactively reducing his child support.
A motion to change a child support order where the respondent father sought retroactive reduction of child support from $415 per month (based on imputed income of $45,000) to reflect his actual self-employment income of approximately $20,000-$25,000 annually.
The applicant mother opposed the motion, alleging the father was hiding income and conducting business through his current partner.
The court found the father's financial disclosure inadequate and incomplete, drew an adverse inference, and determined the father had been under-employed.
The court imputed income at $35,000 per annum (a middle ground), reducing child support retroactively to $325 per month.
The court confirmed the mother's sole custody and formalized the father's alternate weekend access.
