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- Title: Styka v. Styka
- Author : New Mexico Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 19, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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Certiorari denied, No. 25,504, January 6, 1999 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BERNALILLO COUNTY William F. Lang, District Judge OPINION {1} Petitioner Phillip E. Styka (Father) appeals from the trial court's decree dissolving his marriage to Respondent Jane H. Styka (Mother), dividing the community property, and determining child support. Petitioner raises several issues on appeal involving only the child support determination, which he has argued as six separate issues. We have restructured the issues in a different order and format and consolidated them as three issues and several subissues for purposes of Discussion. {2} The first issue relates to Mother's income. Father argues that the trial court erred in determining Mother's income for purposes of calculating child support, by failing to (1) fully take into account the in-kind benefit that Mother receives from living in a residence for which she pays neither rent nor a mortgage; (2) take into account as other income the annual gift of $10,000 Mother receives from her father and other substantial but irregular gifts or lump sum trust corpus distributions Mother has received during the course of the marriage; (3) impute income to Mother based on a reasonable rate of return on the cash assets Mother received in the divorce proceeding; and (4) impute potential income to Mother based on full-time employment.