Financial Affidavit

Each party must serve a preliminary declaration of disclosure under penalty of perjury on the Judicial Council form, including all tax returns filed within the two years before service, identifying all assets and…

Annual gross income for the guideline formula is INCOME FROM WHATEVER SOURCE DERIVED, less the subdivision (c) exclusions. Employee and self-employment benefits count only in the court's discretion.

Official Judicial Council form adopted for mandatory use (current revision shown on the form), asking for employment and income, age and education, tax filing information, other party's income, income from all sources…

Before or when the parties agree on property or support (other than pendente lite support), or if the case goes to trial no later than 45 days before the first assigned trial date, each party must serve a final…

Text listing the deductions from annual gross income used to compute each parent's net disposable income: state and federal income tax actually payable, FICA or equivalent retirement contributions, mandatory union dues…

Rule text: in a family law proceeding a Request for Order (form FL-300) is used to seek court orders and a Responsive Declaration (form FL-320) to respond;

Official Judicial Council form approved for optional use (form FL-160 may be used instead) listing every known community and separate asset and debt by category, including real estate, household goods, vehicles, bank…

Official Judicial Council form approved for optional use in child support matters, with instructions stating it may not be used if either party seeks spousal support or attorney's fees, if the party receives income from…

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IN CONNECTICUT FAMILY LAW. Connecticut is an ALL-PROPERTY state: the court may assign to either spouse ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ESTATE OF THE OTHER.

Pendente lite alimony, support and exclusive use of the family home during the case. The order that sets the shape of the litigation; seek it early.

Official Connecticut Judicial Branch financial affidavit, citing Practice Book §§ 25-30 and 25a-15, to be used when the affiant's gross annual income or total net assets exceed $75,000.

Official Connecticut Judicial Branch financial affidavit, citing Practice Book §§ 25-30 and 25a-15, to be used when the affiant's gross annual income and total net assets are both less than $75,000;

Official Connecticut Judicial Branch help text for the long-form financial affidavit, explaining each field, including how to compute gross weekly income from at least 13 weeks of pay, what counts as salary, wages and…

The Commission that issues and updates the guidelines. Confirm you are applying the current edition rather than a remembered one.

Support is determined by the CHILD SUPPORT GUIDELINES, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to deviate.

Connecticut rule that, notwithstanding the child support guidelines, where an obligor is an hourly wage earner who worked less than forty-five hours per week when the support order was established, additional income…

The court may order one party to pay the other's attorney's fees and guardian ad litem fees, on the criteria the section states. The claim that keeps a lower-earning spouse in the case; plead it.

The court REVIEWS a separation agreement for fairness and equity before incorporating it into the decree, and the section also covers arbitration of financial disputes.

Official Delaware Family Court worksheet (Form 509, Rev 2/26) for the 2026 Delaware Child Support Formula, computing each parent's gross income by source, the nontaxable income and self-employment adjustments,…

Official Delaware Family Court instructions for the 2026 child support calculation under Family Court Civil Rules 500 to 510, stating that the formula is a rebuttable presumption, that every support order (including…

Official Delaware Family Court guide stating that the Ancillary Financial Disclosure Report (Family Court Form 465) is required by Family Court Civil Rule 16(c) of a party seeking ancillary relief (property division,…

Delaware text on support orders: the Family Court may order periodic or lump-sum support, medical support and fees, and subsection (c) requires the parties to notify each other of changes that may materially affect the…

Delaware list of what the court considers in setting support: the parties' and children's health, relative economic condition, financial circumstances, income including wages, and earning capacity;

Rule 500 distinguishes contested departures from consent orders: the former need findings and reasoning; consent orders resolving new or modified support need the Formula calculation attached.

Equitable division of MARITAL PROPERTY WITHOUT REGARD TO MARITAL MISCONDUCT, on the listed factors.

Modification on a real and substantial change of circumstances, and TERMINATION OF ALIMONY on the death of either party, the recipient's remarriage, or the recipient's COHABITATION, unless the agreement provides…

Alimony goes only to a DEPENDENT PARTY, in the amount and for the time the court deems just on the statutory factors.

In the absence of a valid antenuptial or postnuptial agreement resolving all property issues, the court must assign to each party that party's separate property acquired before the marriage or by gift, bequest, devise…

District of Columbia list of provisions every original or modified support order must contain, including income withholding, payment through the Collection and Disbursement Unit, a direction to file and update the…

District of Columbia text: at the first appearance before the IV-D agency or the Court in a paternity or child support matter, or on entry of an order, whichever is earlier, each party must file and keep updated with…

During the pendency of a divorce, legal separation or annulment action the court may order pendente lite alimony, pendente lite child support including health insurance and cash medical support, and suit money including…

The guideline applies presumptively in establishment and modification cases, unless combined adjusted gross income exceeds $240,000, and subsection (b) requires the judicial officer, in every action for divorce or…

Carries the three appendices the guideline runs on: Appendix I, the Schedule of Basic Child Support Obligations keyed to combined adjusted gross income and number of children and starting at the $12,382…

The District's official guideline calculator, run by the Child Support Services Division, which walks through each parent's ability to pay and the children's needs and is built on the D.C.

The court may require either party to pay alimony if it seems just and proper, and the award may be indefinite or term-limited and retroactive to the date of the pleading requesting it;

This is the District's health-insurance and medical-support section: subsection (c-1) requires every support order to carry terms for each child's medical expenses whether or not insurance is available, (c-2) requires…

Florida begins from a PREMISE THAT THE DISTRIBUTION SHOULD BE EQUAL, and unequal division must be justified on the statutory factors.

Official Florida family law financial affidavit (short form, 10/21), whose instructions direct its use in a family law case requiring a financial affidavit when the party's individual gross income is under $50,000 a…

Official Florida family law financial affidavit (long form, 06/25), whose instructions direct its use in a family law case requiring a financial affidavit when the party's individual gross income is $50,000 or more a…

Official Florida form and instructions (06/25) for certifying compliance with mandatory disclosure: the instructions state that the listed financial documents must be served within 45 days of service of the initial or…

Official Florida family law form, the child support guidelines worksheet (06/25), whose instructions say it should be completed whenever child support is requested and should accompany the financial affidavit, and that…

Support is set by the GUIDELINES SCHEDULE in this section, with a presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to vary by more than five per cent.

Florida Family Law Rule requiring, in most family proceedings other than listed exceptions (such as simplified dissolution, enforcement, contempt, and uncontested cases served by publication with no answer), service of…

Florida Family Law Rule allowing a party in an enforcement or contempt proceeding to request a financial affidavit from another party whose finances are relevant, requiring service of the affidavit and a notice of…

FLORIDA ALIMONY IS A TYPED SYSTEM: temporary, BRIDGE-THE-GAP, rehabilitative and DURATIONAL. Permanent alimony was abolished in the 2023 reform.

Maryland text: the Supreme Court of Maryland may issue standardized guideline worksheets, and parents' income statements must be verified with current and past income documentation (pay stubs, employer statements or…

The basic obligation comes from the schedule in subsection (e) and is divided between the parents in proportion to their adjusted actual incomes;

Maryland Rule on family-law pleadings: when child custody is an issue, each party must provide in its first pleading the information required by Family Law § 9.5-209(a).

Official Maryland financial statement for cases where guideline child support is the only support issue: the parent's monthly income before taxes, other child support and alimony paid or received, and for the children…

The court determines the amount and the period of alimony, may award it from the filing of the pleading requesting it, and no further alimony accrues at the end of the period;

Maryland child support guidelines definitions: actual income (with the listed inclusions and exclusions and the self-employment rule), income as actual income or potential income where the parent is voluntarily…

Maryland definitions for the marital property subtitle, including child, family home, family use personal property and marital property, the last of which the parties may exclude by valid agreement as the definition…

In an annulment or absolute divorce with a dispute over whether property is marital, the court decides which property is marital when it grants the divorce, or within 90 days after if it expressly reserved that power in…

Maryland Rule: when a monetary award or other relief under Family Law § 8-205 is at issue, the parties must file a joint statement in the rule's form listing all property owned by either or both, sorted into agreed…

The general financial statement used in a family case where the parties' combined income exceeds thirty thousand dollars; CC-DR-030 is the child-support-guidelines version for combined income of thirty thousand or less.

Massachusetts rule that, unless the court orders otherwise, each party to a divorce, separate support or other domestic relations action seeking financial relief must file and deliver to the other party within 45 days…

Official Massachusetts Probate and Family Court page for the long-form financial statement (CJD 301L), stating that it must be filed in all cases where money or support is an issue and the party's annual income is more…

Official Massachusetts Probate and Family Court page for the short-form financial statement (CJD 301S), stating that it must be filed in all cases where money or support is an issue and the party's annual income is less…

Massachusetts rule requiring, unless agreed or ordered otherwise, each party to a divorce or separate support action (and each parent in a chapter 209C support action where parentage is established) to deliver within 45…

Massachusetts is an all-property state: in addition to or in lieu of alimony, the court may assign to either spouse ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ESTATE OF THE OTHER.

Where parents of minor children live apart without being divorced, the probate court may on complaint make and revise judgments for the children's care, custody, education and maintenance, applying the child support…

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines issued by the Chief Justice of the Trial Court, effective December 1, 2025, presumptively applicable to every order establishing or modifying child support and requiring a…

Official Massachusetts Probate and Family Court complaint for modification (CJ-D 104, 1/22/2020 revision), in which the plaintiff identifies the parties' residences and the judgment to be modified and alleges either…

The court's authority over custody, support and maintenance of children, including support past eighteen for a child principally dependent and enrolled in an educational programme, to the section's age limits.

THE ALIMONY FORMULA. Except for reimbursement alimony or a justified deviation, alimony should generally not exceed the recipient's NEED or 30 TO 35 PER CENT OF THE DIFFERENCE between the parties' gross incomes at the…

In making an equitable distribution the court must consider the duration of the marriage or civil union, the parties' age and physical and emotional health, the income or property each brought to the marriage, the…

New Jersey text requiring any order or judgment that includes child support to state which party is responsible for maintaining health care coverage for the child and the terms and conditions of that coverage, with the…

Text of Appendix IX-A to the New Jersey Rules of Court, as published by the New Jersey child support program, including amendments through those effective June 1, 2025: under Rule 5:6A the guidelines are a rebuttable…

Once a complaint for divorce, dissolution, nullity or separate maintenance is filed and custody, visitation or support of a minor child is at issue, the party who has maintained existing insurance coverage, or coverage…

Making a false statement under oath or equivalent affirmation, or swearing or affirming the truth of a statement previously made, when the person does not believe it to be true, is false swearing, a crime of the fourth…

Pending or after a matrimonial judgment the court may order alimony, maintenance and child support as the circumstances render fit, reasonable and just, require security including trusts for reasonably foreseeable…

Permanent and limited duration alimony terminates as of the date the recipient remarries or enters a new civil union, although arrearages accrued before that date are not vacated, and the recipient must promptly notify…

Making a written false statement the person does not believe to be true, on or pursuant to a form bearing notice, authorized by law, that false statements made in it are punishable, is a crime of the fourth degree;

A support order may include necessary shelter, food, clothing, care, medical attention, confinement, education, funeral and other reasonable expenses, and may require a party to purchase, maintain or assign accident or…

The Family Court may order temporary spousal support pending a final determination even though information about the respondent's income and assets may be unavailable.

Text for Family Court spousal support: "income" means income as defined in the child support standards act (Domestic Relations Law § 240 and Family Court Act § 413), without subtracting spousal support paid to the other…

Child Support Standards Act text in the Family Court Act: parents of a child under twenty-one are chargeable with support, the court applies the basic child support obligation and the stated percentages, and paragraph…

In all Family Court support proceedings both parties must disclose their finances, which may not be waived;

Section 236 contains Parts A and B with distinct applicability. Part B covers automatic orders, agreements and equitable distribution;

A statement by any person, wherever made, subscribed and affirmed as true under penalty of perjury may be used in a New York action in place of an affidavit, certificate, verification or other sworn statement (other…

DRL 240 includes custody and the Child Support Standards Act. Subdivision (1-b)(h) prescribes nonwaivable advisement and presumptively-correct-obligation recitals for the covered agreements or stipulations presented for…

The commissioner publishes a child support standards chart each year, by April first and within forty-five days after the federal poverty guideline, showing the poverty income guideline for a single person, the…

Official Supreme Court of Ohio uniform domestic relations affidavit, approved under Civil Rule 84, used to make complete disclosure of income, expenses and money owed for determining child and spousal support;

OHIO DIVIDES MARITAL PROPERTY AND PRESUMES AN EQUAL DIVISION, with unequal division allowed only where equal would be inequitable and supported by written findings.

Official Supreme Court of Ohio uniform domestic relations form, approved under Civil Rule 84 and amended June 1, 2021, for a sworn affidavit listing all property and debts of both spouses and joint property and debts,…

Official Supreme Court of Ohio uniform domestic relations form, approved under Civil Rule 84 and amended June 1, 2021, used to disclose health insurance available for the parties' children and to determine child…

Ohio calls it SPOUSAL SUPPORT, not alimony, and there is NO FORMULA and no durational schedule: the court weighs the fourteen statutory factors including income, earning ability, ages, duration of the marriage and the…

Ohio definitions for chapter 3119, including child support order, obligor and obligee, gross income, and income, which for a parent who is unemployed or underemployed is gross income plus potential income;

Ohio text requiring the director of job and family services to adopt rules governing child support guideline worksheets and instructions, to adopt standard worksheet forms that must be used in all courts and child…

Ohio text listing the rules that apply whenever a court or agency computes child support: the parents' current and past income and earnings must be verified electronically or with documents such as paystubs, employer…

Rule prescribing the support forms: subdivision (f) sets the petition for modification of an existing support order, reciting the order (attached), the relief sought (increase, decrease, modification, termination,…

Rule on monthly gross and net income: gross income is ordinarily at least a six-month average and includes the sources 23 Pa.C.S. § 4302 lists;

Equitable distribution WITHOUT REGARD TO MARITAL MISCONDUCT, on the listed factors: length of marriage, prior marriages, age and health and income and employability, contribution to the other's earning power,…

Text of Pa.R.C.P. 1920.33: when equitable division of marital property is claimed, each party must file and serve an inventory substantially in the Rule 1920.75 form describing, as of the date of separation, the marital…

Preliminary relief where a party is about to leave the jurisdiction, remove property, or dispose of or encumber property to defeat distribution, support or alimony, including injunctions and security, and the section…

Support is set by the STATEWIDE GUIDELINE adopted by the Supreme Court by general rule, based on reasonable needs and the obligor's ability to pay, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct.

Text of Pa.R.C.P. 1910.11: at the support office conference the parties must provide their most recent federal income tax returns with schedules, W-2s and 1099s, business returns and K-1s if self-employed or a…

A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if, intending to mislead a public servant, the person makes a written false statement the person does not believe to be true or submits a writing known to be forged or…

Texas text providing that gross income should, whenever feasible, be computed on an annual basis and then recalculated to an average monthly figure, and that the Title IV-D agency must annually promulgate tax charts to…

Texas text requiring the court to make a party furnish information sufficient to identify that party's net resources and ability to pay child support, and produce copies of income tax returns for the past two years, a…

Texas text defining self-employment income, positive or negative, as benefits allocated from a proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, close corporation, agency, or independent contractor arrangement, less ordinary…

SEPARATE PROPERTY is what a spouse owned before marriage, acquired during marriage by GIFT, DEVISE OR DESCENT, and personal injury recoveries other than lost earning capacity.

Texas text requiring the divorce decree to divide, in a just and right manner, property acquired while domiciled in another state (or in exchange for property) that would have been community property had the acquiring…

Texas text directing the court to rely on evidence of a party's resources where possible and, absent that evidence, when applying sections 154.066 or 154.068, to consider the obligor's assets, residence, employment and…

Community property is everything acquired by either spouse during marriage other than separate property. The definition that decides what is divisible at all.

All property possessed by either spouse at dissolution is PRESUMED COMMUNITY, and separate character must be proved by CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE. The burden is the practical battleground;

Texas text making a transfer of community property or a debt incurred by a spouse while a divorce or annulment is pending void as to the other spouse if made with intent to injure that spouse's rights, unless the person…

The court divides the estate of the parties in a manner it deems JUST AND RIGHT. Texas is a COMMUNITY PROPERTY state: only community property is divisible, separate property may not be divided at all, and there is no…

On the request of either party at dissolution or divorce from the bond of matrimony, or on the filing of a certified foreign decree under subsection J, the court determines legal title, ownership, and value of all…

Virginia text: in child support services and public assistance cases, the noncustodial parent and a custodial parent who applies must complete a statement of current monthly income, total income over the past 12 months,…

Official Virginia notice under § 20-60.3 listing the information a party must give the judge at a support hearing, beginning with gross income as the statute defines it (with the listed exclusions for public assistance,…

In a proceeding under subsection L of § 16.1-241 or on entry of a decree of dissolution, a divorce from the bond of matrimony or from bed and board, a decree that neither party is entitled to a divorce, or separate…

Every order directing child support, and every spousal support order where there are minor children, including orders confirming separation agreements, must carry a long list of mandatory notices: income withholding,…

There is a rebuttable presumption that the § 20-108.2 guideline amount is correct, and rebutting it requires written findings in the order identifying the statutory deviation factors relied on.

Sets the rebuttable-presumption schedule of basic child support obligations by combined monthly gross income and number of children, plus the sole, split and shared custody formulas in subsection G, health care…

Official Virginia child support guidelines worksheet under § 20-108.2 for sole custody: monthly gross income, adjustments for spousal and other child support, deductions, available and combined income, the basic…