Erickson v. Erickson

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOA ANA COUNTY GRACE B. DURAN, District Judge OPINION {1} Ordinarily, the district court's calculation of child support after marital dissolution is a straight forward process. The governing statute, NMSA 1978, § 40-4-11.1 (1995), contains schedules and worksheets that enable the court and the parties to plug in the parties' incomes, number of children, and a few other numbers to obtain the presumptively correct amount of child support. But this is not an ordinary case. Although the facts are uncontested, they are unusual. The question before us is whether either of the statutory worksheets applies and, if not, how child support should be calculated. I. BACKGROUND