Can I avoid paying child support by quitting my job, getting fired, or by working “under the table?
” Many men simply hate paying for child support. Therefore, many devious men think that they can beat the system and avoid paying child support by quitting their job, by getting fired, or by working off the books. The courts quickly catch onto these schemes. So don’t try to use them! The New Jersey courts simply will not permit a parent to beat the system, and not pay child support by manipulating his income. Nonetheless, the courts can”t force someone to work if they are too lazy. However, the courts can impute income to a lazy person. The courts have developed a concept called the imputation of income. A court will impute income to either parent when that person is not making the amount of income that he could be making. The court will use a book prepared by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development called the Occupational Employment Statistics Wage Survey. This book will provide the average wage in every field of work in New Jersey. The wage survey is also broken
