Florida mother seeks child support from ex, court adds new husband's $8,600 bills to her income

Florida court ordered fresh child-support calculation after husband's household payments were counted as wife's income. (AI image) A Florida appeals court on Wednesday ordered a fresh calculation of child support in a dispute involving a mother whose monthly income of $1,500 had been assessed at $10,100 after a lower court included $8,600 paid by her new husband towards household expenses.According to the judgment document available on Justia, Bianca Rampartap had sought higher child support from her former husband, Darryl Rampartap, who had moved to Trinidad and stopped spending parenting time with their child. After the lower court included the money spent by her new husband as her income, the appeals court has now ruled that it could not be treated as her income simply because he covered those expenses.Rampartap and her former husband, Darryl Rampartap, divorced in 2016. Nearly a decade later, their disagreement over financial support for their child brought them back to court. By then, Bianca had remarried, while Darryl had moved abroad.The dispute arose after Bianca sought a change in child support because she was caring for their child without any parenting time being exercis...