Income attribution and imputed income come into play when a payor spouse chooses to seek under-employment or unemployment as a means of not paying support. Children in need of support or a payee spouse who has a right to alimony are deserving of income that would have been provided had the payor spouse paid diligent attention to their career, occupation or profession. For example, the court may impute a certain income level to a doctor who, for whatever reason, abandons his profession to become a street musician. The bottom line is that elective unemployment or underemployment is seen by courts as evidence of bad faith in calculation of support. The legal action of imputed income is a way the courts remedy that.

Calculations involving the imputation of income frequently happen when the parties of a divorce appeal for modification of support as a result of a change in circumstances.

Attorney Irwin M. Pollack and the lawyers from the Massachusetts Family Law Group have developed the reputation for zealous, competent and compassionate representation when it comes to imputing income. 

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