Marriage of Lim and Carrasco
In this marital dissolution action, appellant Michael Carrasco challenges the trial court’s December 8, 2011 order directing respondent Lily Lim to pay him monthly temporary spousal support of $2,705 and monthly child support of $1,568, based on Lim’s earnings of $22,076 per month while working an 80 percent schedule as an attorney. Carrasco contends that the trial court abused its discretion in calculating support on Lim’s actual income of $22,076 from her reduced work schedule, rather than her earnings capacity of approximately $27,595 per month when employed as a full-time attorney.
For reasons that we will explain, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in calculating Lim’s support obligations on the basis of her reduced income and we will affirm the December 8, 2011 order.
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