Again, you are looking to see if you can impute income if you’re the person that is receiving child support.  So, again if they have a business like a cash business.   On the other hand, there are financial statements that have something called a “Schedule A” or a “Self-Employment” that talks about expenses.  You want to look to see if there ordinary and necessary expenses and/or if they are not; of if they are a perk, or if it is a depreciation and to make the arguments if your receiving child support that some of those expenses for the business should not lower the income and therefore should increase the child support.  

Yet again, if you are the person that is paying child support, you are making the opposite argument that those are ordinary and necessary expenses or that the perks are either minimal or not a factor that should be looked at through the child support guidelines.

There are different arguments for different pieces, things like depreciation a lot of the times the courts are not going to take that off to reduce child support because of depreciation because that is not really making a difference for your lifestyle with the cash on hand.  Some perks maybe more facts specific.