GHIDOTTI v. BARBER

Docket No. 109112, Calendar No. 11.

586 N.W.2d 883 (1998)

459 Mich. 189

James A. GHIDOTTI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Brenda BARBER, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Violet K. Hinton, Battle Creek, MI for the plaintiff-appellee.

Jeanne M. McGuire, Battle Creek, MI and Michael O. Nelson, Grand Rapids, MI for the defendant-appellant.

Anne N. Schroth, Ann Arbor, MI, amici curiae, for Legal Services Association of Michigan and Women Lawyers Association of Michigan.


BRICKLEY, J.

This appeal raises the question whether the custodial mother of two minor children, ages fourteen and thirteen, whose sole source of income is means-tested public assistance,1 can be deemed to be voluntarily unemployed and thereby have an income imputed to her as the basis for her child support obligation to a noncustodial third child. The statutorily authorized Michigan Child Support Formula Manual prohibits the imputation...

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