Family law trial granting divorce and dividing property, debt and spousal support. The court addressed excluded property, horse valuations, and unequal division.
Interim spousal support, business valuation, and property appraisal issues were addressed in this chambers decision, with support set at $24,000 monthly.
The court rejected the applicant's claim of a physical disability preventing work because the accepted medical reports found no identifiable physical or neurological basis for his complaints and the medical opinions were speculative; however, because non-physical conditions (anxiety, chronic pain disorder, psychosomatic components) were suggested and the medical evidence was recent and not definitive, the court granted the applicant six months to produce compliant expert evidence addressing those conditions and their treatability; if the applicant fails to prove inability to work, income will…
The court dismissed cross-applications to vary child support, found no material change in circumstances, and ordered the father to pay all private boarding school expenses.
Variation of child support orders
Imputation of income under federal child support guidelines