Child Custody – Time Sharing of Child Not Always Equal

Dissolution of marriage — Child custody — Presumption against equal time-sharing — In creating an equal time-sharing arrangement, trial court did not err in declining to consider a longstanding presumption that equal time-sharing, or rotating custody, was not in the best interest of the child — Recent statutory changes have abrogated any judicial presumption against equal time-sharing and it is no longer necessary for trial courts to consider factors enunciated in previous case holding a presumption exists against equal time-sharing — Child support — Imputed income — Trial court erred in imputing wife’s weekly income as being an amount she testified was the most she could earn in any week in a job that was strongly seasonal where no evidence was presented to rebut the testimony — Remand to determine wife’s actual income without imputation

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