Q: If you have zero employment do they consider SSI on top of the minimum wage for cross motion child support increase
A:
If the other side has filed an application with the court seeking to compel you to pay / adjust your child support payment obligation, the court has to determine your income setting for purposes of the child support guidelines. If you are disabled and receiving SSI and presumably, she is receiving benefits for your child as a result of your disability, the next question is whether she is going to claim that you are still able to work / are working so that the court can impute to you a greater income setting.
Not surprisingly, this is not a simple inquiry, and my suggestion is that you meet with a family law specialist to discuss the issues outstanding and to let him / her handle it for you. If you screw it up, you will most likely not get a 2nd chance to undo the damage from what you filed on your own.
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