In Florida family law cases, courts apply the child support guidelines in cases where there are minor children of the parties. Sometimes, the current income of the parties does not reflect a party's ability and duty to make support payments. A new modification to child support laws allows family law courts to impute income to a party that does not participate in a child support proceeding or fails to provide adequate financial information in a child support proceeding. In those cases, Florida custody courts must now rely on the rebuttable presumption that the absent parent has the income equivalent to the median income of year-round, full-time workers.
